Cast adrift between existence and oblivion, one man is forced to confront the ultimate violation of nature. Rescued from certain death, he soon learns that survival was only the beginning of a far darker ordeal. Trapped on a remote island laboratory, he becomes the unwilling centerpiece of experiments designed to conquer mortality itself. With every calculated descent into death and shocking return to consciousness, the boundaries of science, sanity, and humanity begin to dissolve.
What starts as a miracle of revival turns into a relentless cycle of annihilation and rebirth. Time stretches and warps as days, months, and even seasons vanish in the gaps between heartbeats. Under the cold logic of a brilliant but merciless mind, the human body is reduced to an instrument, and the soul to an observable phenomenon. As hope narrows to a single, dangerous possibility, the struggle shifts from survival to escape, and from obedience to defiance.
Jack London, famed for his vivid adventures and uncompromising portraits of human endurance, explores a chilling frontier of speculative science. Better known for tales of wilderness and struggle against the elements, he here turns inward, examining the body as unexplored territory and the will to live as the last defense against absolute control. His story blends raw physical peril with bold scientific imagination, creating a relentless and unsettling vision of what might happen if death itself could be postponed at will.
