The Last Child Author:Mark Bennett In the year 2025 the first generation of sterile children is born. The national boundaries are not what they used to be. Entire continents now form new governments. War and national conflicts have rocked the very foundations of the earth. The United Nations has been dissolved and the Cold War has resumed, only now, it is no longer between two su... more »perpowers but between every nation on the planet. Scientists race around the clock trying to reproduce a child in the laboratory to save mankind, while governments send out their spies and assassins against one another. The nation that can reproduce a human being will be the one left standing, and it will be the one that conquers the world. There is war, love, spy verses spy, and a race against time as the potential for global annihilation from our own human condition has finally arrived.« less