Michael Drake is the greatest humanitarian of his age, a bonafide saint. He saved billions of lives across the galaxy with a vaccine against the disease ybonia, refusing all profits and royalties.
When a mutated strain of ybonia later appeared, Drake announced he would travel to the Inner Frontier and find a cure. He promptly disappeared, never to be heard from again.
Fifteen years later, journalist Robert Horatio Markham sets out to find Drake and write the ultimate story, one that would cement his career and enshrine his name in history. He lures ex-adventurer Enoch Stone away from a paper-pushing museum desk job. Stone in turn hires several former comrades and outfits the expedition.
The group lands on Bushveld, a remote and mostly uncharted world (think deepest darkest Africa on a planetary scale) and, with a slim lead and a years cold trail, starts out in pursuit of Drake. Along the way, with cameramen in tow to chronicle the expedition from start to finish, they encounter pitfalls and setbacks.
Most disturbing though, ever more so with each passing episode, are the subtle changes Stone sees occurring in his friends, and the slow revelation of Markham's true character, and he begins wondering what really drives his employer; the lives of billions of people hanging on the success of their mission or Markham's own power-driven quest for immortality.
I have never failed to finish a new Mike Resnick book in less than twenty four hours. "A Hunger In The Soul" is no exception. Resnick tells us a futuristic allegory of Stanley Livingston, mixing pulp adventure and moral insight into a chilling and thought-provoking journey into the hearts and minds of men who seek greatness, and just what they will commit to attain such greatness.
Woe to the reader who needs to rise early the next morning. When you
start a book by Mike Resnick you're there to the very end, and damn
glad you were.
Recommended.
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