The Anti-Death League

I came across The Anti-Death League in the campus library and I can't wait to start reading it. The title, as is the case with many books, stopped me in my tracks and goaded me into taking this Kingsley Amis novel off the shelf. I will post more on it when I am finished reading the book. In the mean time, here is a portion from a review published in TIME magazine:

"The Anti-Death League is knowledgeable, or perhaps merely confident, about security and also about such matters as psychoanalysis, theology, homosexuality and alcoholism. The story begins in a private mental hospital, where mixed-up army officers are vetted, but the focus shifts to a nearby military installation engaged on a sinister project known as Operation Apollo. Kingsley Amis, whose The James Bond Dossier shows a theoretical as well as a practical interest in secret agentry, plays fair with the reader. Atomic rifle ammunition for issue rifles seems to be the secret of Apollo; the suspected leaks include a friendly neighborhood nymphomaniac, a particularly nasty psychiatrist, an alcoholic-homosexual and the chaplain, who is a devout atheist. Amis keeps the reader looking in the wrong direction until the highly sophisticated and almost credible solution. By this time, one thing is clear. Apollo is really a cover for an even more dreadful military weapon—germ warfare. As a terror deterrent to the Red Chinese, the British have developed a technique for transmitting rabies to an enemy army. It is too much for one of the officers (unduly sensitive to such questions, as his beloved broad has just been diagnosed for cancer), who would maybe like to join a way-outfit called the Anti-Death League. This is an intelligent man's nightmare, with the famous Amis wit flickering as an unkindly light amid the encircling gloom."