In the year 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon searched Florida in vain for a fabled fountain with wonderful curative powers. He didn't find the fountain. Ironically, he died on the trip back to Spain of illness contracted during the search. Centuries later Doctor Peter Garrison found it, the Fountain of Youth. It was not in south Florida like Ponce de Leon thought, but Peter stumbled on it just as surely as if old Ponce had parted the palmettos and fell in it, and then found an alligator in it. Just like Peter's fountain.

It was nearly a year after Dr. Garrison started the first test on ten human volunteers before the first negative note was made in any of the ten health diaries that the participants were told to keep. Bart Adams wrote, "Today I feel a general weakness and lethargy that I have never felt before." On the morning of the next day, as Bart struggled to get from his bed to the bathroom, he collapsed and fell to the floor, unconscious. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital but he never regained consciousness and died before noon. That alligator had been lurking, unseen and unsuspected in the depths of Peter Garrison's "Fountain of Youth."

In the pages that follow read how Peter and his brother Sam meet the challenges of their totally different lives. Peter with the help of the beautiful congresswoman from Arizona presents the leaders of the nation with some difficult decisions.

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