To Each Their Own Author:C. B. Barrie She held the key to eradicating all the ills of mankind - yet she held back because the world couldn’t be trusted. After all, disease and its prevention was a multinational business, far too valuable to threaten. For her own protection, she stayed hidden. It was a fatal mistake trying to find her. All she wanted was to be left alone - and she w... more »ould kill, and go on killing, to keep it that way! ‘To Each Their Own’, in exploring a quasi-fictitious set of circumstances, poses a difficult question. What response do you make to an individual who holds the key to something utterly altruistic, the potential salvation of mankind, yet displays a nature and behavior wholly malevolent? An underground, and wholly unauthorised, radiation based experiment in genetic manipulation is carried out by a group of respected scientists in the early sixties. So certain are they of the value of their results that they experiment on themselves, inducing a change in their immune system. They expect to become wholly resistant to life threatening diseases. As the story opens, in the middle eighties, we are made aware that the group has virtually died out leaving only a few survivors. Now, in the present day, there appears to be just one remaining.« less