New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2000). First edition - His fourth novel, but the first written using this pseudonym - a biotech thriller which "takes as its premise the existence of a fountain of youth: when Chris Bacon, a dedicated medicinal chemist for Darby Pharmaceuticals, journeys to Papua, New Guinea, in search of 'miracle drugs that grow on trees,' he finds much more than the contraceptive plant steroids he was looking for. He discovers tabukari, the 'forbidden flower of the long day' - a blossom with the power to prolong life." 352 pp.