Long Life?

The charge is Murder in the First Degree. The prosecution demands a sentence of death by lethal injection, claiming that this is the most heinous case of murder-for-profit he has ever seen. Rebecca Adler MD., the accused, is the Medical Director of Omega Terrace, a cryonics center, located in North Scottsdale, Arizona, a few miles up the road from where the frozen body of Ted Williams reposes. Adler claims that she performed a cryonic suspension, not a killing, on a willing patient, that he is suspended in a frozen condition, not dead.
Joe Purcell, a famous New York trial lawyer, is asked to defend. He is fresh from his record-breaking verdict in the Fireball case, the subject of Robert Begam's first novel. Purcell is hesitant to get involved in what looks to be a sure loser. He is finally persuaded by one factor. As he puts it, "This will be the first murder case in which there is only one issue: Is the victim dead?"
Not at all like so many other "whodunits," Long Life? is a battle of top lawyers engaged in courtroom combat. At the top of their game they debate cutting-edge contemporary issues, where science, religion, morality and the law intersect. The reader will discover not only what the science of cryonics and the law are, but what the future may hold, as man engages in his ultimate battle, the battle with death.