Pheromone 2100

About the Book

Pheromone 2100—a fast paced novel spiced with humor—takes place during the first decade of the twenty-first century.

After a research scientist accidentally creates a powerful sexual control chemical, an industrialist steals the product and dispenses it to wealthy clients. For those with big bucks, and some unscrupulous others, a fantasy world of love and sex unfolds, drawing in young and beautiful people who would otherwise remain unreachable. The fates of those under the influence of the love elixir, celebrities and common folks alike, are chronicled.

Nicholas Isenborg, the research scientist, is a young idealist. Wracked with guilt over the utilization of the pheromone-based potion, he tries frantically to create a reversal formula. His attempts are complicated by the fact that he is in hiding from the henchmen of R. S. Pearle, the wealthy businessman who is peddling Pheromone 2100. Isenborg is kept alive by Clu Rolfe, an ex-con whose wife has become one of the sex slaves. Isenborg and his lover, Corina Lavin, a strong female character—also on the run—are reunited toward the novel’s end. The novel is not excessively explicit sexually.

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Rolfe thumbed through some pages in the journal. “I still don’t get it, Doc.”

“Let me explain it this way. I extract a special protein from your cerebrospinal fluid and add it to my synthetic pheromone formula. Then I inject that mixture into Corina. She’d be irresistibly drawn to you, and there wouldn’t be a thing she or I, or you, could do about it.”

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“Details. Give me some details. And sit down, will you?”

“You know I can’t sit down when I’m giving the pitch. I’ll pace a little slower and try not to make you dizzy.” Harv planted his fists on the desk near a paperweight. “Imagine you could have any woman you wanted. I’m not talking about some looker on the street, Dean. I mean famous actresses, rock stars—any age and social class—no limits. Not only can you get close, but the most voluptuous creature in the world would have one goal in life ... to treat you like a god. You’re worried, maybe somebody better looking, more accomplished, somebody with more money and charisma is going to come along. Wipe it from your mind. The woman of your dreams thinks there’s one guy on the planet and that’s you.”

About the Author

Jack Karasch is a New York native and grew up on Long Island, in Santa Barbara and the San Francisco Bay Area. Scuba diving expeditions have taken him throughout the Caribbean, to Fiji and Egypt’s Red Sea. Other latitudes visited include Greece, China, Turkey and most of Europe, as well as much of North America. A divorced father, his home sits between a bay and grazing lands. Publication credits include short fiction, poetry, newspaper articles and a historical novel, Delta Golden Days.