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THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU By: Carolyn See
Ballantine
October 2007
On Sale: September 25, 2007
272 pages ISBN: 0345440471 EAN: 9780345440471 Paperback (reprint)
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Thriller Psychological | Suspense
It is a moment in the near future when the global threat of terror has cultivated rage, apathy, and panic across the country. People fear that βanybody could be armed, or have a bomb. Or a disease. Or all three.β For Phil, a dermatologist at the UCLA hospital, it is a time of unease and uncertainty, in stark contrast to the days when he coasted through life on his good looks, a modicum of charm, and only haphazard effort. Now Phil must deal with his mother, Edith, whoβs been grieving over the death of her husband for several years and only recently has thought to reconnect with a family that seems to have other priorities. Philβs energies are already divvied up among his belligerent children, his wayward wife, and his unreliable mistress.
Then Philβs life takes a dramatic turn: He is recruited for a top-secret team whose task is to act quickly in the event of a biological or chemical attack. The assignment just may provide him with a renewed sense of purpose. Yet dire circumstances force Phil to make profound decisions that will affect not just himself and his loved ones but the entire country. It is a chance for an ordinary man to rise from mediocrity to heroismβand at which failure would prove to be catastrophic.
Foreboding and all too plausible, There Will Never Be Another You is a cautionary novel of family and society, where a naΓ―ve past is replaced by a menacing future in which distinguishing between reality and imagination proves to be more challenging than ever
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