- After an encounter with a mysterious stranger, a man finds his intellect rapidly expanding. As the power of his mind grows, so does the mystery of a series of brutal murders.
- In New York, the young man Alex watches a chess game on the street and is invited to play by the winner. Alex loses the game and goes home. His friend Jason visits him and Alex has migraines. Out of the blue, he faints and Jason calls an ambulance to take him to the hospital. The neurologists Dr. Denise Bell and Dr. Ira Gold examine him and learn the Alex's brain uses the frontal lobe more than any normal person, reason of his intelligence. Dr. Bell recommends Alex to be consulted by her friend, Dr. Karen Murphy, who is writing a book about cases similar to his. Soon, Alex has hallucinations with a monster while several murders are occurring with his acquaintances.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 25-year-old Alex Borden is handsome, charming, and intelligent. In fact, he may be too smart for his own good, as his life is swiftly becoming a living hell. Alex's nightmare begins when he meets Harry, a mysterious artist and chess-master. Alex becomes alarmed when his intellect mysteriously begins to grow, and so do the horrors that invade his nightmares--and soon his waking hours. Long-suppressed memories surface and Alex must face the terrors of his violent past, a vanished older brother, a father who abandoned both his sons, and a mother who was viciously murdered. The visions intensify and he starts getting intense headaches that ultimately cause him to black out. But it is only the beginning of Alex's calamity. Friends and neighbors are disappearing, and people are whispering rumors of a serial killer. Menaced from all sides by the forces of evil, Alex must overcome his past and contain his own deadly urges so he can hopefully discover what demons, both real and imagined, are stalking him.—Joseph B. Mauceri
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