Martyr

"Martyr" by Alan Edward Nourse is a science fiction story where Senator Dan Fowler fights against a group that controls a special technology that stops aging, wanting to keep it only for themselves. As Fowler tries to stop them, the book looks at important ideas about power, death, and what happens when medicine becomes too advanced. At the start, a man named Carl Golden is secretly looking into a death on Mars, which might be connected to the aging technology plan on Earth. Then, Fowler finds out he's sick, making him think about using the same technology he's battling, raising the stakes. The story begins darkly, pulling readers into a mix of personal desires and big social problems.