Lifeliners

When everybody is against them it is tough being a lifeliner as Nash Bannon found out. Lifeliners are ordinary people...almost.They can draw energy from another person; they live longer and are smarter. Scientists claim that Western high-pressure living and growing sterility in developed countries has triggered the rise of lifeliners and homo sapiens will replaced by homo renata within ten generations. So whats not to like about lifeliners? Protest marches by extremist groups riots attacks against lifeliners repressive laws enacted by governments everywhere were portents of a dark future. Young successful Nash Bannon did not like what was going on but he thought he had the world at his feet and life in Australia was good provided no one found out he was a lifeliner.A chance encounter with Cariana during a lunchbreak develops into something he considered important. The Australian government calls a snap election and Nash stands as a Senate candidate on the Lifeliner Party ticket. Unless lifeliners rise up and fight for their rights they can expect sterilization incarceration and possible extermination as democracies everywhere turn into autocracies. To survive the Lifeliner Party must employ the same dirty tricks the government used against them but they were not prepared for what awaited them.