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Do you know what is inside you? I mean, do you really know? Or do you just accept that your body is just like those pictures in biology books? Richard Smith never really thought too much about it—until that day in the hospital.

It was just supposed to be a routine examination to check for an ulcer. An endoscopy, an out-patient procedure, is very common but what the doctors saw inside Richard was not normal—not human. Phone calls were made and people showed up. People in suits with hard faces, cold eyes, and guns. People like Ryan, who kills without a second thought. Richard was sedated and they cut him open. And while they had their hands and their cold metal instruments inside his guts he woke up. With the help of a stolen gun he escaped.

Now Richard is on the run and he has to find out what is inside him. They had to be wrong. He is human. He eats, he sweats, he goes to bathroom, he gets excited by the touch of a pretty girl. He’s just a normal, teen-aged human, right? But there it is on the endoscopy video—weird silver, brown, and black things inside him– tubes, filaments, and casings that didn’t show up on x-rays. And the cut they made in his stomach is healing fast—inhumanly fast. He can’t go home, not that a foster home is really home. And he doesn’t really have any friends. The only one he can think to turn to is Eddi. He doesn’t really know her but he knows she lives outside the law, making fake IDs. He can’t trust Eddi but he has no other choice. Can Richard and Eddi escape from Ryan and the others? Can they find out the truth about Richard? Do they really want to know?

Brooks (Martyn Pig, Lucas, Road of the Dead) has crafted a gripping mystery with his trade-mark other-worldly feel. Lots of action early on will hook readers quickly and the mystery of who (and what) Richard is will keep them reading to the end.

By Mr. Doyle

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