From Publishers Weekly
In his first outing, Eidson takes on two of the world's most insidious diseases: love and old age. Hoping to save his former from the latter, Andrew Camp, a biotech expert, creates "the blue helix," a potion for immortality. As he rushes to bring it to his wife, Sara, who is dying of heart failure, Camp discovers that his mortal enemy, the Wiseass, has contaminated his mixture with an unknown substance. A fight ensues and the Wiseass is blinded. In a compulsive act of mercy, Camp uses the altered potion on the Wiseass, then watches as his enemy becomes young, astoundingly beautiful and incredibly strong. Camp uses the potion on himself and his wife and they escape. But Sara tires of their solitary existence and she goes out into the world using her superhuman charisma to wrap everyone around her finger. Camp is left alone to worry about his wife's darker desires and his enemy's growing power. He also wrestles with whether the effect of the blue helix is permanent and, if not, how to duplicate the Wiseass's contaminants to make more of it. Eidson addresses readers in a friendly, intimate voice that makes it easy to forgive his philosophical waxing on the superficial perfection of his characters and their world. Though it lacks profundity, his tale appeals with its hearty consideration of a man's overwhelming love for his wife, her deep dissatisfaction with herself and another man's determination to tear the couple apart. Agent, Richard Parks. (Sept.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.