Dead Head

by Allen Wyler and Allen Wyler

Book Overview

An internationally renowned surgeon follows his acclaimed Deadly Errors with this chilling medical thriller. Brain surgeon Russell Lawton is abducted by terrorists who want him to develop a computer... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765355965
• ISBN13: 9780765355966
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Mix of neuroscience and suspense

Start reading it - and you won't be able to put it down until you're done! Writtn by a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist, the book gives you plenty of scientific information in very understandable way.

Engrossing Medical Thriller with Rich Characterizations

Every character has a personality which sticks with you after you put the book down. What a crew! It reads so credibly, I wanted to keep that head alive to learn all its involuntary intelligence. I wanted that head kept alive in custody! Dr. Wyler, what's next????

A Frightening Look at a Possible Terrorist Scenario

Russell Lawton is a neurosurgeon who works for the NIH and is presenting a paper on his research at a medical meeting. His special interest area is brain-computer connections. He is kidnapped by Muslim terrorists and is forced to help them preserve the body and brain of one of their critically injured colleagues. His daughter's life is in the balance, along with the brother of his assistant, whose life is also threatened. He must devise a way to let the injured terrorist speak to his co-conspirators, even if his head is separated from his body and preserved. Dr. Lawton overcomes obstacle after obstacle in his need to have his daughter spared a horrible death. The action and plot are non-stop and grab you from the moment you read the first few pages. The ending is somewhat of a surprise and is well written.

Unique and chilling medical thriller

The phrase spine tingling takes on a whole new meaning in Allen Wyler's latest thriller, Dead Head. Wyler's fast-paced story spans the country and thrusts NIH research neurosurgeon Russell Lawton into a desperate battle against time, terrorists and the Feds to save his young daughter, Angela. No less desperate is a cell of Middle Eastern extremists, who threaten to bury the child alive. The leader of the cell, a ruthless former battlefield surgeon, forces Russell to use his strictly theoretical research in brain-body synthesis in a frantic attempt to keep his gravely wounded comrade alive long enough to complete his deadly assignment. Closing in from the other side is savvy FBI Special Agent Sandra Phillips. Brought into what appears to be a parental custody dispute between Russell and his former wife, the agent soon realizes that something much larger and far more sinister is going on. In less skilled hands this chilling "what if" story could have easily fallen flat, but Wyler, himself a neurosurgeon, takes an utterly unfathomable concept and makes it completely feasible. As Russell fights to save his daughter, the reader is swept up in a nightmare scenario where medical boundaries and personal safety take a back seat to one man's courage and ingenuity.

Incredible!

I loved this book. The characters, the plot, a terrific ending - but what I was particularly enthralled with, absolutely intrigued by was the "dead-head" premise of the book - a premise that I imagine only a neurosurgeon like Dr. Wyler could have imagined - and the image of a human head, suspended eerily in a dimly lit room .... Well, to say more would give away the plot, but I can already see it on the big screen. A fantastic book. Mike Lawson