Genocide of one

a thriller

506 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2014

ISBN:
978-0-316-22622-6
Copied ISBN!
OCLC Number:
876669248

View on OpenLibrary

5 stars (1 review)

"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 …

2 editions

Subjects

  • Gifted children
  • Imaginary wars and battles
  • Fiction