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Genelife is a new drug marketed by the Randall Foundation. It’s the wonder drug of the century that makes people Beautifeel — they feel beautiful, they lose weight easily, age spots disappear — they ARE beautiful, but is it safe? Randall Foundation says it is and the doctors working for the Randall Foundation say it is, but it’s inventor has disappeared and it looks like the Foundation had a hand in his disappearance.

Dr. Kate Martin is happy to join the team marketing the breakthrough drug Genelife. Here is a product that restores youthful looks and vitality with stunning speed. Why grow old when it has become so simple to stay young?

With her impressive credentials, Kate is the star of the media blitz to sell the world on the latest biochemical miracle. But soon she begins to suspect that the drug, which she herself is using, has horrifying side effects that can obliterate more than the appearance of aging. Kate Martin hazards her life as she plunges into a nightmare labyrinth that takes her from the inner sanctums of a large Japanese corporation to a secret laboratory in Florida…from the tantalizing spell of one man to the chilling suspicions of another. To find the terrifying truth about this so-called gift of youth that first seduces then ravages.

Why would Kate want to question Tucker Boone, the missing scientist who had discovered the secret of Genelife, and who was now declared mad?

Why would Kate worry about what Genelife could do to those who used it when she only had to look in the mirror to see how wonderful it made her look?

Behind the glowing lies about Genelife are the dark truths. Behind the miraculous mask of youth is the horror of death.

Side Effects by Nancy Fisher
Published by the Penguin Group 1994
ISBN 0-451-18130-1