While Russell Lawton is in the middle of a speech about robotic manipulations of the brain and how to achieve them at a medical symposium, his young daughter is kidnapped in Virginia, and then he is kidnapped in San Francisco at the close of the meeting, and an accident happens in Washington DC. What is the connection? Why him, why then, what happens to those he loves and his colleagues?

Mohammed is the key, Hussein and Ahmed and Raveena are key players in this can’t-put-down thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. These things really are about to happen in the medical community, as we read this account of the possibilities. Can Lawton figure out a way to keep a head alive and communicating for a few days, and buy time to locate and rescue his eight-year-old daughter from live burial?

These things are alarmingly close to reality. Terrorism is alive and well and about to breach our shores in a big way, very soon, and the robotics that are shown to be possible in this book are soon to be things that can and will happen in everyday medical research. Can and will the two ever meet; that is the probability and supposition for this book.

Wyler is a real-life brain surgeon, who knows what he is writing about. He writes with charisma and makes you believe that all of it is possible. (Remember HAL, and think of where we really were when 2001-A Space Odyssey came out.) A totally engrossing book; get it, read it, think about it.