The Immortals think themselves above humans, so when David feels threatened by Jessica's research he kills her fellow researcher, Peter. Then he returns to Jessica, his wife of six years, a Miami reporter who's just started research on a book about disgraceful conditions in nursing homes. David stops off to administer euthanasia. Today, his daughter Rosalie, from a liaison in New Orleans in the 1920s, lies infirm in a Chicago nursing home. He's also had many lovers, wives, and children, and watched age overtake them while he remained young. He is, for all practical purposes, immortal. Still looking 30, Dawit (now known as David) lives in Miami, his Khaldun-transfused blood so filled with T-cells that no disease or injury can kill him. Some 500 years ago, young Dawit of Lalibela, in Abyssinia, was inducted into the 52-member group called The Immortals by the master Khaldun, who had drunk the blood of Christ. Top-flight soft-horror novel by Miami-based columnist Due (The Between, 1995).
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