[Read by Stefan Rudnicki]A scientific thriller by sixtime Hugo Award winner Ben Bova. Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life: his tenyearold granddaughter, Angela. When Angela is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and given less than six months to live, Luke wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4 (MORF4), that he believes will kill Angela's tumor. However, the hospital bureaucracy won't let him do it because MORF4 has not yet been approved by the FDA. Knowing Angela will die before he can get the treatment approved, Luke abducts her from the hospital with plans to take her to a private research laboratory in Oregon. But Luke is too old and worndown to flee across the country with his sick granddaughter, especially with the FBI on their trail.
