From the back cover of the Del Rey first edition: "Fool's goal - In the twenty-first century Avery Jarvis "Doc" Brandon lived in luxurious seclusion on subtropical Nameless Island. An immensely wealthy gene-engineer who dabbled in illegal baby-making, Doc was 186 years of age and looked thirty-five. But a storm loomed on his horizon: Bureaucrats had blundered across Doc's real age. They wanted his "secret discovery" and would undertake anything - including blackmail, kidnapping, and murder - to get it."
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- Operation — #2