SIGNED; The Ambassador by Edwina Currie MP (Hardback 1999-1st) Future Euro Novel

The Ambassador\nEdwina Currie\n\nPublished by Little, Brown and Co., London (1999) Signed by the author on the title page. Vg book in good jacket, unclipped, but creased to the upper front cover. Spine ends bumped. Hardcover. \n\nTHE AMBASSADOR takes place in Europe a hundred years from now. It is a time when the European Union is the supreme leader of the free world, the main challenger to China, with the USA trailing behind. Scientific advance has brought the ability to beat disease and ageing - not by medicine alone but more fundamentally, by gene therapy. In THE AMBASSADOR, Bill Strether is sent by the American President to the UK to represent his country which, captured by fundamentalists, has banned the medical advances taken for granted in his new home. Although he harbours doubts about its ethics, he finds the official genetic programme breathtaking and impossible to condemn. THE AMBASSADOR is an extraordinarily persuasive account of how the world could be, and the challengesr