In the suspenseful, character-driven storytelling tradition of Michael Crichton, Robin Cook and Michael Palmer. Michael Braverman's Darwin's Tears adds another exciting voice to the medical-political thriller genre. Dr. Nathaniel Garland was a broken man. Two years earlier he was a happy, outgoing, overworked Georgetown pediatrician. He loved his job, loved his patients and, more importantly, was profoundly in love with his wife, Daisy. They had a daughter whom Daisy called Breezy because her laughter filled a room with a breeze lighter than air. Garland loved his two ladies more than humanly possible. But then, after witnessing the horrific deaths of both Daisy and Breezy at the hands of a morally bankrupt pharmaceutical company, Garland fell into a deep despondency. His downward spiral led to his contemplating his own demise. At the urging of his old mentor, to help channel his depression and anger, Garland reluctantly agreed to join the CDC's new Biomedical Investigations Agency of which his mentor was the Director. The BIA had barely opened its doors for business when one of its medical agents, Dr. Sarah Levine, had gone missing. Garland immediately launched an intensive investigation to find Sarah. However, his first field operation to arrest and interview a hearse driver whom he believed to have knowledge of Sarah's disappearance was an unmitigated disaster. He had unwittingly stumbled into a sniper's ambush that resulted in the deaths of five bystanders, the hearse driver and a female FBI agent assigned to assist him. Still reeling from that disaster, his investigation takes a dramatic turn when the death of a young girl, brutally and tragically deformed by bizarre medical experimentation, leads Garland, on a deadly hunt for the perpetrators. His quest takes him from the hidden corners of Arkansas to the power corridors of Washington as he uncovers a conspiracy of unimaginable horror.

In the history of popular television, there are not many shows that have addressed the issues of adolescence, family values, diversity, prejudice, and physical and mental disabilities so directly and fully as Life Goes On. The unique flavor of this daring series (which debuted on ABC in 1989, and which has recently been released on DVD) went straight to the heart of the American-viewing public. Now, the creation, development, and ever-increasing popularity of this this ground-breaking and heartwarming small screen classic is explored in LIFE STORY - THE BOOK OF LIFE GOES ON: TV'S FIRST AND BEST FAMILY SHOW OF CHALLENGE, written by best-selling author Herbie J Pilato (Bewitched Forever, The Kung Fu Book of Caine). Inside the pages of LIFE STORY, the reader will find revealing commentary from Pilato's exclusive interviews with cast members such as the Golden-Globe-nominated Chris Burke (who played Corky Thacher, the high-school teen with Down syndrome, which Burke has in real life), the Emmy-winning Chad Lowe (who portrayed the AIDS-stricken Jesse McKenna), and the Family-Television-Award winning Kellie Martin (who was Becca Thacher, sister to Corky and loyal young love to Jesse, and who is now the star of the Hallmark Channel new hit series, Mystery Woman). Also interviewed for LIFE STORY, were pristine behind-the-scenes team players including director/producer Michael Nankin and creator/executive producer Michael Braverman (the latter of whom has penned the book's foreword). Life Goes On continues to inspire viewers, and reaches beyond the realm of average entertainment with superior production values and credible, yet compelling, universal stories, each delivered with a sincerededication in presenting good television. LIFE STORY - THE BOOK OF LIFE GOES ON: TV'S FIRST AND BEST FAMILY SHOW OF CHALLENGE captures that same spirit and transfers it into literary form.