
A brilliant neurosurgeon has just finished a bizarre operation: a bullet has passed clean through a patient’s skull, yet the man is still breathing. As the surgeon steps out of the operating theatre, a team of sharply dressed FBI agents waits, debating whether to let the survivor live or to cut him down. Their uneasy conversation hints at a larger, hidden threat that makes the patient’s very existence a dangerous secret.
When the man—Paul Wendell—regains consciousness, he discovers that none of his senses work. He can’t see, hear, taste, or feel anything, yet his mind races to piece together a fractured reality. Faced with a mysterious clinical void, he must use pure thought to uncover who he is, why he survived, and what the shadowy officials want from him. The story blends tense forensic drama with a provocative exploration of consciousness, all set against a backdrop of covert intrigue.
Language
en
Duration
~27 minutes (26K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2007-09-25
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1927–1987
A prolific mid-century science fiction and fantasy writer, he became especially well known for the Lord Darcy stories, where detective fiction meets an alternate world shaped by magic. He also wrote heavily for the pulp magazines of the 1950s and 1960s and collaborated with other major SF writers.
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