    One of the greatest benefactors of all lifekind was a man who
couldn't keep his mind on the job at hand.
    Brilliant?
    Certainly.
    One of the foremost genetic engineers of his or any other
generation, including a number he had designed himself?
    Without a doubt.
    The problem was that he was far too interested in things which
he shouldn't be interested in, at least as people would tell him,
not now.
    He was also, partly because of this, of a rather irritable
disposition.
    So when the world was threatened by terrible invaders from a
distant star, who were still a fair way off but traveling fast,
he, Blart Versenwald III...