Utopia has been achieved For centuries disease hunger poverty & war have been things found only in the histories & applied genetics has given men & women the bodies of athletes & a lifespan of over a century They should all have been very happy But Hamilton Felix is bored & he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes Hamilton is as far as genetics can produce one the ultimate man & this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive & has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy However Hamilton&s life is about to become less boring A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia not just boring but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to be Done are planning to revolt & put themselves in charge!