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In the Garden of Iden (The Company, Bk 1) (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
In the Garden of Iden - The Company, Bk 1 - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Kage Baker, Janan Raouf (Narrator) A world where the future of commerce is the past. — In the twenty-fourth century, the Company discovered time travel and immortality and preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. — As a child,... more » in 16th century Spain, Mendoza was sold by her parents to a group of pagans. When her captors are arrested, she is snatched up by the Spanish Inquisition. However, one of the Inquisitors is the cybernetic Joseph, who transforms Mendoza into a cyborg and trains her to be his agent. Mendoza, the botanist, is offered immortality if she saves a cancer-curing plant from extinction. The job takes her to the botanical garden of Sir Walter Iden in Elizabethan England where she has to make a difficult choice - love for a man, Nicholas Harpole, or her mission. And that love sounds great bells of change that will echo down the centuries.
9 CDs, 630 mins total, unabridged. Janan Raouf, narrator.« less