Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0765340712, Mass Market Paperback)

Nanotech promises all things: Immortality, invincibility, wealth beyond imagination--and the utter destruction of Mankind. One man has it-and no one knows who....Mitchell Swain is the richest man in the world--until he announces the "ultimate technological breakthrough." The world stops for the press conference-and sees him assassinated.No one knows what he was going to say.Almost no one.Jennifer Rayne intends to find out. A leading journalist covering high-tech, she was scheduled to interview Swain after the press conference. Instead, she investigates his murder.What she finds is a scientist to whom Swain has funneled billions....A desperate U.S. government following the same clues....And a bizarre technology which promises invincibility, immortality, and the ability to destroy any enemy--or the earth itself.Mankind has entered the final arms race.It will last two days.As this breathlessly fast-paced nanothriller unfolds, readers are taken on a stunning tour de force of nanotechnology's promises and perils--until the fate of the earth itself hangs in the balance....* Winner of Nanotechnology Now's Editor's Choice Award *