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Together with his acclaimed books Darwin’s Children and Vitals, award winning author Greg Bear turned intriguing speculation about human evolution and immortality into tales of unrelenting suspense. Now he ventures into arguably more scary place in a haunting thriller that mixes today's technology and traditional horror, because it maps one man’s inexorable descent into an environment of increasing unnatural dread.For the final 2 yrs, Peter Russell has mourned the death of one of his double daughters—who was only five when she was killed. As another damaging setback current information of his greatest friend’s deadly coronary attack has come. Separated, negative, and going nowhere in his career, Peter concerns his life is circling the drain.