Thou Shalt Kill

In 2032, America is nearing financial collapse after entering its seventh conflict in Iraq. At home, government-funded stem cell research has produced a medical breakthrough once thought impossible: the ability to replicate human organs. But when corporate greed takes hold, a discovery meant to save lives begins reshaping society in ways no one anticipated.
As cloning extends human life, the population surges beyond sustainable limits. The government responds with a chilling solution: every citizen is implanted with an "etch," a device that tracks age and signals when a person has reached the mandatory age of death. The years remaining on an etch can be bought and sold-and soon, human longevity becomes one of the most valuable commodities on earth.

Overseas, however, death follows different rules.

Army Lieutenant Roger DeMarco is drawn into a brutal fight to stop the slaughter of entire Iraqi villages, where soldiers and civilians alike are being harvested for profit. As war, medicine, politics, and corporate ambition collide, doctors find themselves on opposing sides of science and morality, while a charismatic reality television star captures the world's attention by selling his remaining years and choosing to die in a spectacle of excess.

In a world where life itself has become a commodity, America must decide how much humanity it is willing to sacrifice in order to survive.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TOM P. BROWN is a physician and military veteran with twenty years of service in the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy. He has firsthand combat experience and deployed to the Middle East in both land-based and aircraft carrier operations.