First ImmortalIn his astonishing first novel, James L. Halperin wrote of humanity's epoch making achievement of truth and justice at the dawn of the twenty first century. Now Halperin takes his luminous vision a leap further into the future as he unfolds this magnificent saga of our triumph over death itself. At the age of sixty three, Benjamin Smith, accomplished physician, loving father and grandfather, brilliantly original thinker, is in the prime of his life.