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cryogenic sleep twelve years later.
    In those twelve years, Deitrich Zimmer had meticulously raised young Martin as his own son, his finest experiment. Escaping with the boy after killing the fortuitously available second infant, Deitrich Zimmer found asylum in a modest but adequate encampment that he had prepared as a last refuge. The site was in a remote portion of what was once known as Brazil.
    With the assistance of several loyal Nazi comrades, he
    accomplished the required genetic surgery to alter the Rourke child and make him his own.
    The result proved to be all he had hoped it would, except for Albert Heimaccher’s tendency toward petulance, which Martin unfortunately displayed. And, perhaps, that had been a characteristic of Adolph Hitler as well. Some accounts alluded to the trait.
    The result was a boy he raised as Martin Zimmer, with the mental and physical capacities of John Thomas Rourke spliced to the genes of the greatest leader in human history, Adolph Hider. Heimaccher, the source of the genetic material, was a direct descendant of the Fuhrer through the Reichskinder program. After twelve years of intensive education utilizing the most dynamic techniques then available, it was time for them both to sleep.
    The seeds of change were planted in Eden, and as Deitrich Zimmer had hoped, the intervening years allowed those seeds to take hold and flourish.
    Deitrich Zimmer had awakened eighteen years ago. And he had awakened Martin Zimmer, his son now, in order to complete the boy’s education and make him ready for power. Although Deitrich Zimmer’s age was best calculated at sixty-four, according to comparative data, he was as fit as a healthy man of fifty. And this was adequate to his purpose as counselor to the new Hitler.
    Cryogenic sleep not only rejuvenated the body, but in direct proportion to the duration of sleep, it prolonged the life span. Perhaps John Rourke suspected that.
    Rourke slept five centuries between what was commonly called The Night Of The War and the period in which the great war between the Allies and the opposing Soviet culture was concluded. Then Rourke slept for another century and a quarter.
    The effect of six hundred twenty-five years in cryogenic sleep on a human body such as Rourke seemed to . possess could not be calculated. The computer model Deitrich Zimmer constructed indicated strongly that barring catastrophic illness or violent death, John Rourke would live well beyond the normal human life span, maintaining youthful vigor for a vasdy extended period of time as well.
    What if each year lost were a year gained? Zimmer’s body shuddered with the thought.
    And the same scenario, more or less, held for the rest of the Rourke Family.
    And then there was Sarah Rourke, young Martin’s mother.
    Try as he had since his own return to life eighteen years ago, Deitrich Zimmer found himself unable to locate the cocoons in which the sleepers rested. But he knew there were two more. In one chamber slept Sarah Rourke, a bullet lodged deep within her brain. As long as John Rourke lived, Deitrich Zimmer wanted Sarah Rourke to live as well, but not a moment longer.
    Because John Rourke had to know that the only man alive who possessed the surgical skills and techniques sufficient to remove the bullet was the man who had put it there. And that man could not be killed. To do so— for John Rourke to kill him—would be to sentence Sarah Rourke to sleep forever in something like death, perhaps even worse than death.
    The remaining sleeping chamber held the odd man out.
    Colonel Wolfgang Mann, field commander for the victorious Allied armies, was that man. Why had he abandoned the adulation of New Germany for the uncertainty of cryogenic sleep? Did he lust after one of the women? What was the answer?
    But the survival of Wolfgang Mann provided an excellent opportunity for revenge. Mann, with the considerable aid of the Rourke Family, toppled the National Socialist regime of New Germany, and