A little more human
Subtitle: a novel
By: Fiona Maazel
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781555977696
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Nurses' aides; Men; Paranoia; Fiction; Conspiracy; Memory; Telepathy; Biotechnology; Extortion
Description: Meet Phil Snyder: new father, nursing assistant at a cutting-edge biotech facility on Staten Island, and all-around decent guy. Trouble is, his life is falling apart. His wife has betrayed him, his job involves experimental surgeries with strange side effects, and his father is hiding early-onset dementia. Phil also has a special talent he doesn't want to publicize--he's a mind reader and moonlights as Brainstorm, a costumed superhero. But when Phil wakes up from a blackout drunkand is confronted with photos that seem to show him assaulting an unknown woman, even superpowers won't help him. Try as he might, Phil can't remember that night, and so, haunted by the need to know, he mind-reads his way through the lab techs at work, adoring fans at Toy Polloi, and anyone else who gets in his way, in an attempt to determine whether he's capable of such violence.