Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon hardcover edition of this novel about a terminal cancer patient, a medical journalist, who is refused an experimental treatment but then experiences flights of fantasy, which lead to an ongoing nightmare, when a strange grey-eyed lab assistant offers to help him. Part science - the possible cure is based on DNA research - and part fiction - he becomes the first mutant "stud." By the brother of Howard Fast. Dustjacket art by Don Bender. 219 pp.