Publisher description: Teddy Aspic is a brilliant scientist who is tormented by flickering memories of a painful former life. Jack Clark is an innocent Washington bureaucrat--but a lifetime ago he murdered Teddy Aspic ... and Aspic remembers. Not a man to be content with ordinary revenge, Aspic begins to explore the existence of the human soul--and the possibility of its control. Here is a novel of enormous scope and imagination, with characters that develop over not one lifetime, but many. It is nothing less than an expansive and panoramic exploration into the human soul and the discovery of its awesome and limitless powers by two men. From the banality of twentieth-century Washington, to a bizarre future world of nuclear mutation, to an even more distant future in which men struggle to build a new civilization, the personalities who were once Clark and Aspic are bound together by the chain of the past. This is their Karma, their self destiny and only by understanding it can they be free.