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Elixir: A teen-genius medical thriller
ISBN-13: 9780989850797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str.
Winner - Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award, Silver Medal Readers' Favorite Book Awards Meet 14-year-old Sean Malone. He has an IQ above 200, a full-ride scholarship to one of the country's top universities, and more than one million dollars from his winning streak on Jeopardy. However, Sean wishes he could just be normal. But his life is anything but normal. The US government manipulates him, using him as a codebreaker in pursuit of a drug lord and killing innocent people along the way. For reasons related to his personal security, Sean finds himself in Rome, building a new life under a new name, abandoning academics, and hiding his genius from everyone. When he's 18 he falls in love. The thrills begin again when he learns that his girlfriend is critically ill and it's up to him to use his intellect to find a cure, a battle pitting him against a multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical company and the demons of his past. Elixir is a story about identity, secrets, and above all, love.
Winner - Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award, Silver Medal Readers' Favorite Book AwardsA teenage genius goes on a suspenseful adventure to cure his girlfriend of a mysterious disease.Protagonist Sean Malone's journey begins at fourteen. He has an IQ north of 200, a full-ride scholarship to the country’s top technical university, and over a million bucks from a winning streak on Jeopardy. However, he wishes he could just be normal.His genius comes at a price. The US government manipulates him, using him as a codebreaker in pursuit of a drug lord and killing innocent people along the way.When he pushes back, the Department of Defense pushes harder, and Sean is forced to flee to Rome to build a new life under a new name, abandoning academics, and hiding his genius from everyone.He enjoys a quiet existence in secrecy the next few years. And at eighteen, falls in love.The calm shatters when his girlfriend, Natasha, falls critically ill. Her doctors have no idea how to control the disease before it overcomes her. His intellect is her only hope of survival. He knows nobody else can figure out the medical puzzle before her time runs out.Sean brazenly returns to the US, where he has to avoid the prying eye of the Department of Defense as he tries to piece together a cure. His problems intensify when he hacks into the servers of a multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical company. And it finds out.He now has to evade the machinations of not just one, but two powerful institutions on US soil, all while figuring out the hardest medical problem on Earth, and finding a way to get back to Europe before it's too late for Natasha.Elixir is a story about identity, secrets, and above all, love.This Amazon #1 bestselling thriller, author Ted Galdi's debut, is enjoyed by both young-adult and adult audiences.Its elements of government conspiracy and intrigue, reminiscent of the Edward Snowden incident, probe the darkness that can loom over agencies like the NSA. While its take on the Ebola virus is a hopeful expression of how human ingenuity, if allowed to flourish, can make the world a safer and better place.A fast-paced thriller with unique characters and streaks of cutting-edge science and mathematics, Elixir is written in the tradition of authors like Michael Crichton.
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