Bøker av Jamey Gittings

Ned Alexander, a reporter at large for an American newspaper, has alighted in Paris after pursuing a long, dangerous, emotional story in India and Nepal. All he wants is some relaxation and recharging, but interesting-and often deadly-occurrences have a way of finding him.Before he's even had time to sleep, Ned is plunged into a unique drama of international intrigue. Human body parts have found their way into horsemeat entrees served by one of the city's finest restaurants, a prominent American politician has gone missing, and Ned has found allies in his assistant back at his paper, a beautiful doctor and the most precocious nine-year-old girl anyone is likely to meet.In this story spanning newsrooms in Arizona and Montana, hotels and restaurants, and underground clubs in France, slaughterhouse backrooms in Canada and wild mustang ranges of the high plains, Ned tugs at loose ends, trying to discover where they lead. Amid the surprising turns, profound truths are revealed about where common good and craven self-interests converge and depart, the malignant forces that hide in plain sight, and the renewal of love.

This is a work of science and fantasy that chronicles the lives and trajectories of 15 young people with Down Syndrome who are subjects in a federal gene replacement therapy experiment that makes the subjects not only as smart as normal (typical) people, but far smarter-geniuses, in fact.The narrator, Mason Free, tells the story of his personal transformation from "retard to genius," documenting the progress of the group as it becomes a shadow global intellectual force. Often irreverent and sometimes politically incorrect, Mason and his cohorts grapple with cultural and personal biases, the nature of intellect itself, and what it means to be vulnerable, while addressing the societal ills of climate change, environmental destruction, cultural and racial prejudice, wealth inequality, and religious intolerance. Along the way, Mason falls in love and reflects on the nature and power of that love, not only for his girlfriend, Holly, but for his divorced parents, and humanity in general. The story, informed by the author's own experiences in the field and burnished by imagination, is by turns hopeful and cynical, a work of fiction and a stark warning.

This is a work of science and fantasy that chronicles the lives and trajectories of 15 young people with Down Syndrome who are subjects in a federal gene replacement therapy experiment that makes the subjects not only as smart as normal (typical) people, but far smarter-geniuses, in fact.The narrator, Mason Free, tells the story of his personal transformation from "retard to genius," documenting the progress of the group as it becomes a shadow global intellectual force. Often irreverent and sometimes politically incorrect, Mason and his cohorts grapple with cultural and personal biases, the nature of intellect itself, and what it means to be vulnerable, while addressing the societal ills of climate change, environmental destruction, cultural and racial prejudice, wealth inequality, and religious intolerance. Along the way, Mason falls in love and reflects on the nature and power of that love, not only for his girlfriend, Holly, but for his divorced parents, and humanity in general. The story, informed by the author's own experiences in the field and burnished by imagination, is by turns hopeful and cynical, a work of fiction and a stark warning.