New York City: A thirteen-year-old boy named Tyler lies in a hospital, his brain damaged in a tragic accident. By his bedside, his father stands helplessly, as two very different scientists take charge of the boy's fate. One is a neurosurgeon, whose unorthodox experiments use computers to control a patient's physical responses during surgery. The other is a researcher with experiments of his own, ones so secret he can reveal them to no one: his attempts to find the spark of human consciousness...and capture it forever.
Together, they will produce a result beyond anything they could have conceived, sending Tyler far beyond the frontiers of medical science into an astonishing netherworld of man and machine - a place no living person has gone before and from which one desperate person will try to bring him back....
An emotional father is overwhelmed by one of the worst tragedies of human life, the apparent death of his teenaged child. At first, there seems to be some chance to save the boy, but there is very little hope. Then one of the doctors develops an ill-advised secret plan, and, unfortunately, it works. What makes this book solidly enjoyable is its speculation about the human mind, and the familiar reading of Dick Hill, who makes each character come alive no matter how repulsive or insipid. D.R.W. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
About the Author
John Darnton has worked for forty years as a reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He was awarded two George Polk Awards for his coverage of Africa and Eastern Europe, and the Pulitzer Prize for his stories that were smuggled out of Poland during the period of martial law. He is a best-selling author whose previous novels include Neanderthal and The Darwin Conspiracy. He lives in New York.
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