THE AMBASSADOR

A strange mixture of political thriller, drawing-room mystery and science fiction, THE AMBASSADOR presents a future world in which the biggest prejudice left in polite society is the prejudice against clones. Are they the equals or the superiors of natural-borns, and how is an American supposed to act when he goes "over there" as Ambassador to the European Union, where cloning is acceptable? Narrator Simon Shepherd gives the matter more passion and urgency than the book itself ever musters. It takes patience to stick with this one. M.C. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC/JAN 01]