The internationally bestselling, awardwinning Japanese thriller about a child who may be the future of the human raceor the cause of its extinction. During a briefing in Washington D.C., the President is informed of a threat to national security a threeyearold 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 grandscale events like pieces on a chess board. And yet, for all that power, Akili has the emotional maturity of a childwhich 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 Akilis full potential can be realized. But Yeager has a very sick child, and Akilis advanced knowledge of all things, medicine included, may be Yeagers only hope for saving his sons life. Soon Yeager finds himself caught between following his orders and saving a creature with a hidden agenda, who plans to either save humanity as we know itor destroy it.

Binding: Hardcover;514 pages; Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA; Classification: FH; Weight: 931.93 g; Dimensions: 242 x 166 x 44

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