Brief

An unassuming insurance salesman gets more than he bargained for when he attempts to rob one of his clients. He unwittingly gets involved with a secret organization that has a discovered a product that can rejuvenate the human body and their leader has his sights set on world domination.

What We Liked

Provides relevant social commentary with cautionary tale vibes. The concept is unique and compelling. It’s large in scope and lends itself to mass marketing.

Film: A feature adaptation of the story would either have to be truncated to fit into one movie or expanded into a franchise. The breadth of the narrative as well as the needed visual effects would be quite a cinematic venture.

TV: These books could easily be adapted into a limited television series. The narrative could definitely be fleshed out to create more stories lines and deeper character development. The second book could use the most “build out” in terms of narrative and characterization.

Key points:
Unique; Engaging; Franchise potential; Broad appeal; Strong female characters.

Synopsis

John Dwyer is an ordinary insurance salesman. Recently separated from his girlfriend and a bit down on his luck, he attempts to rob his clients, Ted and Marissa. The attempt is foiled by Marissa’s sister, Joyce, but the next thing John knows, he wakes up alone at his own home.

John has more energy and notices that he is more psychically fit than normal. He is also a bit confused that Ted says nothing to him about the attempted robbery. John is infatuated by Mary, an 18 year old high school cheerleader and friend of Marissa and Ted’s daughter, Megan. Mary carries herself in a manner that is suggestive of an older woman. When Mary and John come up on an explosion at Ted and Marissa’s house, Mary thinks quickly and pulls John into a secret elevator that takes them to an underground safehouse. Mary and John are met by Ted, Marissa, Joyce and Megan and John learns that they all belong to group headed by a central authority figure called Alexander Wolf. It is revealed that under windmills at the edge of town, the group maintains a product that can rejuvenate humans. John was injected with the product which is why he has undergone the positive changes. Megan and Mary reveal that they are much older their 18 year old bodies suggest. It is top secret and bringing John into the fold complicates things for the group. Alexander Wolf wants to experiment on John and Mary and try to revert them back to infant status. It is reluctantly arranged and Mary and John are given enough product to make them babies again. They are given the names Allison and Adam and Megan agrees to raise them as her own. The twins are frequently visited by Alexander Wolf through their childhood.

18 years later, Adam and Allison start to remember their previous lives and Megan confirms the facts. Joyce is now part of the powerful all-female board that advises Alexander Wolf. His true identity is that of Adolf Hitler and he plans to use death rays to hold the world hostage and force all the countries under a central government that he intends to run. As he destroys major cities around the globe and his identity is revealed to many in the group, Joyce and the all-female board decide to rebel and stop him. They use his technology against him and turning him into a baby again. With the help of Megan, Allison/Mary and Adam/John, Joyce plans for the new central government of the world to run by all women.

About The Author

Linda and Gary are married and raised a family. He has worked in the maintenance field, but he was primarily a boiler operator. This is his first published book. He has written another unpublished book. The idea for this came to him as he drove by a group of wind turbines. The rest of the book was written, “by the seat of his pants,” so to speak. He didn’t follow any plan.