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About the Book

Reginald “Lefty” Sanford, a famed Negro Leagues baseball player and pitcher from yesteryear, dies and his remains are questionably frozen in a cryonics facility in Arizona, potentially against his “last wishes.” An employee/ medical technician, Jonathan Bishop of the cryonics company, Mizaronics, is fired unexpectedly after revealing a catastrophic event that occurred during the preservation of Sanford – a breach of protocol for whole body internment. Amongst public outrage, Rachel Geary, a young newspaper reporter in Phoenix, and a well-known Black baseball biographer from Detroit, Wesley Thomas Washington, champion the effort of “freeing” Reggie Sanford from his “frozen casket of absurdity.” Ironically, Wesley Washington also elicits the advocacy of a now elderly, former Red Sox icon, Ted Williams, a national hero and friend of Sanford. Williams, is retired in Florida, but willing to assist. The unscrupulous plot involves questionable medical vivisection and desecration of cadavers - science fiction that breaches bioethical standards and state-regulated mortuary practices. Futuristic cryonicists that entice the sick and elderly into submitting their bodies to an unproven technology of internment demean traditional funeral arrangements. Their belief is a future return to life in another millennium – a world where cloning and nanotechnology will cure all diseases that killed them. Industrial terrorism leads to sabotage and the theft of a critical biological sample. Jonathan Bishop goes public, having stolen confidential records and photos related to Sanford. The abduction of a key character in the book elicits a love story of incredible devotion, akin to Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet. “Reggie” Sanford becomes a pawn in the rapid-paced “chiller” that leaves the reader questioning the validity of what is medically defined as, life and death, versus the definition that futurists have placed their bets on – a state of limbo where the immortality of Man is the inevitable future. The action-packed mystery “chiller” questions who legally controls ones’ remains after death. The non-validated cryonics myth and deception is currently in use today, albeit denounced by modern medical researchers, cryobiology experts and peer-reviewed scientific thought. Sadly, the U.S. and State governments have done nothing to formally denounce the sanctimonious charade.

About the Author

J.P. Polidoro, Ph.D. is the author of nine novels to date. His mysteries are New England based, and medical or murder related, often with sinister motives, incorporating his background knowledge of medical research and biology. His graduate degrees are from the University of Massachusetts, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences. Dr. Polidoro is a novelist, songwriter/ performer, photographer and poet. See Amazon.com, and www.longtailpublishing.com for his other novels /books. By day, Dr. Polidoro works in the biopharmaceutical industry, in toxicology. Dr. Polidoro resides in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, with his wife and children.