The Ultimate Race

Synopsis

London, 17th September 1998

Nicholas Hamilton was well into his second life when the ethics and implications of pet cloning bothered him deeply.

His first half century fell into the well worn script of wild youth, misadventure, marriage - kids, successful business, loads of money - followed by the familiar crash, boardroom rows, betrayal, wife desertion, kids - drugs, too much booze and where in the hell did the money go? He had been there, done that and got out. Forever !

The new life had been gratifying, intriguing and simpler - until now. His fully automated marketing services hidden somewhere in London had made him wealthy beyond his former self’s dream yet the money meant little to him now. Real life was about real people, the good, the bad and the ugly. Desperate, unsolvable situations were so challenging.

Pet Cloning. The more he thought about it, the more revulsed he felt about it, but as Pascal pointed out, it was a vehicle to solving some of the world’s more acute crises; poor food distribution drought and famine. What about camel genes for desert cows? His medical supplies relief agency kept hitting political obstacles. Help was so difficult to deliver. Something always blocked his altruistic ambitions….and those bumbling opportunists Dieter and Derek who almost penetrated his London operation he thought so watertight.

Meanwhile a third world military general had terrifying ambitions. An island with reclaimed land had been sealed off and prepared for the world’s first surrogate cloning farm from which human organs would be designer cloned to order and contracted to rich Americans and Europeans. A private army was going to be raised discreetly and would be prepared from the genes of the most violent and ruthless of fighters. These super warriors would become the world’s finest and most feared.

Only the general didn't have the know how and the scientists to achieve it all. He has the cash. He had stolen a third of the nation’s resources Ferdinand Marcos style, so in faultless copybook mafia technique he simply plucked the world’s brains out of their European beds and encouraged the hapless boffin and his crew to realise his plan. Unfortunately, his gang of thugs rounded up the owner of N.H. Distribution in their net who took painful exception to his forced change of schedule.

The cloning industry still in its infancy had been unleashed on a fearing world market. Two powerful men with opposite agenda, each raise the stakes and risk everything in pursuing their ultimate objectives. The human race will never be the same again - literally. Who is real anymore? And, who is in ultimate control?