Customer Reviews

Long Life?: A Journey into the Unknown World of Cryonics

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I really enjoyed "Fireball", Robert Begam's earlier novel, and was delighted to meet several of my favorite characters again in "Long Life?" Begam's credentials as an experienced litigator enable him to take us through the corridors of powerful law firms, the prosecutors office, and, better still, inside the thinking, the speculation, the anxieties and the motives of these fascinating players as they confront both legal and moral dilemmas that are just over the horizon. Good fun and deep thoughts in one delightful package!

A fantastic book that you cannot put down with may twists. I recommend it highly to anyone who wants a great book to read while on an airplane.

LONG LIFE is excellent! Robert Begam has succeeded in creating a new and exciting courtroom drama that exceeds his previous novel FIREBALL and that book was terrific. Several of the same great characters return in LONG LIFE and they are more clever than ever. The story explodes into the courtroom forcing you to deal with your own mortality. How will you face death when the moment comes? Who will help you? What methods are available...and what is the morality of the method? Be prepared for a wild ride that achieves an absolute rarity in literature...you find yourself thinking, analysing and taking sides, all while being totally caught up and involved in this great courtroom adventure. Yes, all that and I didn't even mention the beautiful and sexy blonde doctor. Read it. I did and it was fantastic.
Brian Gordon Sinclair: Playwright, HEMINGWAY ON STAGE

I actually came across this book while purchasing Frozen by Larry Johnson. This is was a great read from start to finish. Robert Begam gets your attention from the beginning and holds it strong till you finish the last page. Whether you are a fan of cryonics or not, you will find this to be a good book. You can tell that the author did his homework and that helps make it a very interesting read.

To defy mortality in the hope of achieving a kind of immortality is the basic concept that fuels the research and application of cryonics. "Long Life? A Courtroom Thriller Journey into the Unknown World of Cryonics" tells the story of Rebecca Adler, a dedicated cryonicist who, for applying this to a live person, faces a murder charge, despite claiming her alleged victim was willing, and is only suspended in animation, not dead. Joe Purcell must act as defense in a case where it isn't a matter of whom the perpetrator is, but if a crime even took place. Robert Begman's deftly written and original novel, "Long Life?" is a unique and highly recommended mystery that twists the genre to a delightful new variety.

Engrossing,"hard to put down" style, like a good murder thriller, but with a depth of knowledge and intelligence far beyond what one usually encounters in that genre. I'm a physician from Phoenix, and can attest to the accuracy of the city referrences, but his knowledge of cryonics goes way beyond what I knew. My favorite aspect, however, was his detailed description of the tactics and procedures used by attorneys in a high profile criminal trial. The author is obviously an expert in this area, and it is facinating to get a "behind the scenes" view of what goes on. He's a great advocate, but I still am cold about being frozen!

This courtroom thriller is right out of today's headlines.

Omega Terrace provides sophisticated cryonic freezing and storage services to clients who bet their bodies, and their millions, that science will someday discover how to "reanimate" their frozen remains.

Trouble begins when OM's beautiful head scientist agrees with her incurably ill friend that "pre-mortem" freezing is the best way to preserve his body from further ravages of his terminal disease. Pre-mortem freezing is science jargon for starting the freezing protocol before the client is legally dead. The ferocious county attorney calls it murder, and wants the death penalty.

The trial preparation and courtroom drama are intense as the stakes couldn't be higher. You'll recognize the characters: the obnoxious local politician looking for a "hook" for his reelection campaign, the high-priced brillant New York trial attorneys who've seen and done it all, and the equally talented yet less polished prosecutor who know's evil when he sees it and is committed to fight it.

This courtroom thriller owns your attention all the way to its disturbing end. Long Life? will also keep you thinking about life and death questions that have no easy answers, and that's no small accomplishment for a thriller.

A very good book except that cryonics isnt just for the rich it is cheap via life insurance...this means brings it home to everyone. Will Cryonics work? Read the book and decide for your self...I think its only a matter of time...the rate technology is exponential considering Moore's Law. What was Sci-fi is now a reality!

Long Life was an excellent book along the lines of John Grisham with a very interesting subject, cryonics.

This is a page-turner, a courtroom thriller about a young, beautiful doctor on trial in Phoenix for first-degree murder. She practices cryonics - freezing bodies in the hope that they can be brought back to life at a future date. The charge against her is that, with the patient's consent, she performed a "pre-mortem suspension" on a patient who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion. In other words, she took the patient into suspension before his bodily functions had totally ceased (and before the disease could ravage his body). The jury has to decide whether the "victim" is dead or merely awaiting reanimation. It's a good read, and it brings together issues of science, religion, ethics and the law in one intriguing case. Read it! [...].