Genocide of one
Subtitle: a thriller
By: Kazuaki Takano ; translated by Philip Gabriel
Contributors: Gabriel, Philip, 1953- translator
Edition: First North American edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780316226226
Subjects: Gifted children; Imaginary wars and battles; Fiction
Work titles: Jenosaido
Description: "During a briefing in Washington D.C., the President is informed of a threat to national security: a three-year-old boy named Akili, who is already the smartest being on the planet. Representing the next step in human evolution, Akili can perceive patterns and predict future events better than most supercomputers, and is capable of manipulating grand-scale events like pieces on a chess board. And yet, for all that power, Akili has the emotional maturity of a child--which might make him the most dangerous threat humanity has ever faced. An American soldier, Jonathan Yeager, leads an international team of elite operatives deep into the heart of the Congolese jungle under Presidential orders to destroy this threat to humanity before Akili's full potential can be realized. But Yeager has a very sick child, and Akili's advanced knowledge of all things, medicine included, may be Yeager's only hope for saving his son's life. Soon Yeager finds himself caught between following his orders and saving a creature with a hidden agenda, who plans to either save humanity as we know it--or destroy it"--