Biomedical Self-Engineering

Divorced and working as a security guard in Portland, 73-year-old Carl is attacked by an unknown creature before managing to taser it to death. After being released from the hospital, he discovers by accident that he's unwittingly acquiring DNA samples from the people he touches — and a blue box appears in his right eye. The blue boxes reveal that his health is nowhere near what he assumed. Can he reverse the negatives using this strange system? And can he turn around his poor financial situation after his wife took half his pension just before retirement?

Carl thought his life was on track — until disaster struck. Now he looks like a 35-year-old and is out of points, scrambling to change the situation before anyone finds out the truth. The question is what to do next: buy more businesses, or focus on his love life? And always in the background is his family, wondering what happened to their father and grandfather, and whether he'll ever talk to them again.

Carl thought he had his life in order — until disaster struck again. Jenny, a woman he met at a school bond drive, has latched onto him, and now he wonders whether he's lost Barbara forever. At the same time, Carl has been roped into tracking down stolen Federal Reserve funds, since the authorities can't find them themselves.