His world began in agony. Squealing brakes.

An impact. He floated for a moment and crashed onto a hard surface.

Bones splintered, and he screamed. Cramps folded him over.

He pushed the pain, the fear, the dying away from him, put them behind a thick, hard wall, and became himself. Alone.

The wall protected him. No man remembers his birth.

The pain and confusion remained buried behind that wall for forty years. And then Max Iverson went to a movie and was torn open again.

Suddenly, a murderer's memories force their way into Max Iverson's mind. Max is horrified and bewildered.

Surely this isn't real!Max is a private person by nature, isolated from his fellow humans. Now he is forced to know what the worst of them are thinking, and his nights are filled with nightmares.

Even worse, he is drawn into helping the authorities punish the criminals whose thoughts he now knows. He is unaware of the danger this will expose him to.

There is a cabal of criminals behind much of the major crime in the city. He didn't know of their existence, but they become aware of his, and now they are determined to eliminate him.

Max must change from frightened quarry to pitiless hunter. His hunt leads him to the cabal and also to life-changing discoveries about his own history.

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