Uncovering a Global Health Conspiracy in a Near-Future Thriller

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 26, 2016

This is a rebroadcast of an interview that originally aired on October 5, 2016.

Jamie Metzl is a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council and has served in the US National Security Council, State Department, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His latest novel, Eternal Sonata: A Thriller of the Near Future, is set 10 years in the future and tells the story of Kansas City Star reporter Rich Azadian who uncovers an international conspiracy led by corporations, national intelligence services and rogue scientists to control the new technologies which may hold key to extending the human lifespan.

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