Review: Provocative glimpse of the possible near future
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2012
Are you willing to believe that surgeons can install thousands of probes in your brain and a microprocessor/tramsmitter/receiver in your thorax, all indetectable by modern scanners, that not only record your environment but also elevate your neural and hormonal functions?  If so, "Enhanced" will sweep you through an eerily familiar landscape of politics and national security, coup and counter-coup, and budding and dissolving personal relationships.  If not, "Enhanced" might confuse you with the possibilities that follow from such an operation.  Because the author explained the enhancement procedure in such credible detail, I fell into the former group and thoroughly enjoyed the adventures of the augmented soldier and his plucky neurosurgeon.  Only two shortcomings prevented me from assigning five stars to this novel.  First, much of the action takes place in Africa, and I just never got a sense of place from the descriptions.  Second, the neat political containment of the national scandal at the end of the novel rang much less true than the science fiction aspects of "Enhanced."