Synapse
When Jake's twin brother, Gabriel, is left severely brain damaged by a near drowning accident, Jake is convinced it's his fault. Every Sunday for nine years, Jake visits Gabriel at the institution. At the point when Jake has lost hope that his brother even knows he's there, Dr. Ryder arrives on the scene. "Your brother might still be thinking and feeling, trapped inside an unresponsive body," she says. "I could set him free."

What Jake doesn't know is that Dr. Ryder is not driven by a desire to help the mentally disabled. She's motivated by the need to extract a lucrative secret from the brain of Terra O'Hare, a formerly brilliant scientist who suffered a near drowning "accident" very similar to Gabriel's. Dr. Ryder hopes to use what she learns from Jake and Gabriel's twin brains to get into Terra's.

Dr. Ryder has experimented before. Amnesia is one of her few surviving patients. With street smarts and a tough exterior Amnesia escapes from Dr. Ryder's death row laboratory and becomes a powerful force in the mission to save Jake, Gabriel, and Terra from certain death.

Synapse takes actual research in neurological science, and plays what-if with the idea that there can be a good and a bad side to pushing science to its limits. The novel is told from three different points of view - Jake's, Terra's, and Amnesia's. Starting separately, the stories become inexorably entwined as the tension builds.
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Synapse
When Jake's twin brother, Gabriel, is left severely brain damaged by a near drowning accident, Jake is convinced it's his fault. Every Sunday for nine years, Jake visits Gabriel at the institution. At the point when Jake has lost hope that his brother even knows he's there, Dr. Ryder arrives on the scene. "Your brother might still be thinking and feeling, trapped inside an unresponsive body," she says. "I could set him free."

What Jake doesn't know is that Dr. Ryder is not driven by a desire to help the mentally disabled. She's motivated by the need to extract a lucrative secret from the brain of Terra O'Hare, a formerly brilliant scientist who suffered a near drowning "accident" very similar to Gabriel's. Dr. Ryder hopes to use what she learns from Jake and Gabriel's twin brains to get into Terra's.

Dr. Ryder has experimented before. Amnesia is one of her few surviving patients. With street smarts and a tough exterior Amnesia escapes from Dr. Ryder's death row laboratory and becomes a powerful force in the mission to save Jake, Gabriel, and Terra from certain death.

Synapse takes actual research in neurological science, and plays what-if with the idea that there can be a good and a bad side to pushing science to its limits. The novel is told from three different points of view - Jake's, Terra's, and Amnesia's. Starting separately, the stories become inexorably entwined as the tension builds.
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Synapse

Synapse

by D. August Baertlein
Synapse

Synapse

by D. August Baertlein

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Overview

When Jake's twin brother, Gabriel, is left severely brain damaged by a near drowning accident, Jake is convinced it's his fault. Every Sunday for nine years, Jake visits Gabriel at the institution. At the point when Jake has lost hope that his brother even knows he's there, Dr. Ryder arrives on the scene. "Your brother might still be thinking and feeling, trapped inside an unresponsive body," she says. "I could set him free."

What Jake doesn't know is that Dr. Ryder is not driven by a desire to help the mentally disabled. She's motivated by the need to extract a lucrative secret from the brain of Terra O'Hare, a formerly brilliant scientist who suffered a near drowning "accident" very similar to Gabriel's. Dr. Ryder hopes to use what she learns from Jake and Gabriel's twin brains to get into Terra's.

Dr. Ryder has experimented before. Amnesia is one of her few surviving patients. With street smarts and a tough exterior Amnesia escapes from Dr. Ryder's death row laboratory and becomes a powerful force in the mission to save Jake, Gabriel, and Terra from certain death.

Synapse takes actual research in neurological science, and plays what-if with the idea that there can be a good and a bad side to pushing science to its limits. The novel is told from three different points of view - Jake's, Terra's, and Amnesia's. Starting separately, the stories become inexorably entwined as the tension builds.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940013878198
Publisher: Black Crow Publishing
Publication date: 12/15/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 188 KB

About the Author

I write software by day and stories by night, a combo made even stranger by the fact that I started my adult life as a marine biologist/geneticist. Even though I got my Ph.D. ever so long ago I still love science, especially the biological variety, and my fiction is full of it. Science, I mean.

For my last science gig I worked at U.C. Berkeley in the plant pathology department where I genetically engineered both bacteria and plants toward the goal of greater frost tolerance for crop plants.

When I had my son, long lab hours became too much, so I took up computer programming and writing. My first published novel, Synapse, was been twenty years in the making, with other projects waxing, waning and waxing again all the while.

I have a full time job with IBM, one husband, one favorite (only) son, no daughters (sigh), two dogs, two cats, a crow, and a huge old Oscar fish. We all live together in a one-bedroom cabin/crap shack in the middle of a Southern California wilderness. (See banner photo above.) It is a grand adventure, and on occasion a nightmare. While bears, mountain lions and coyote packs loom fearsome in the imagination, it’s the mice, ants and septic systems that cause the most day-to-day anguish. And yet we love it.
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