Chapman Pincher was famous in the 1960s and 1970s as a journalist (particularly on security matters), and had something of a right-wing reputation. He's still with us at the age of 100. This piece of science fiction from the mid-'sixties is pretty much forgotten now, and appears to be out of print.

That's a pity, because it's a splendid piece of hokum written in a way that makes it oddly believable. A British scientist discovers the secret of eternal youth and markets it as Juvenex. What happens next can be for the reader to discover, but it's a rattling good read.

The book was written, one assumes, mainly as an entertainment and it is a good one, but there is an unstated message here: that we do not always know what we are doing. But Pincher's real skill here is to set the story in an entirely familiar world so that we suspend disbelief very easily - a trick used to equal effect in a much more famous work of science fiction, Orwell's 1984. If you find this in your local Oxfam shop for a quid, grab it quick.
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