Doctor Pulse and the Load Shedding Wars: A Superhero Advente
The lights are going out. Somebody has to turn them back on.
Ray is a New York kid with kitchen Urdu, a side of Bollywood, and big dreams of becoming a doctor. Then he moves to Pakistan for medical school, and the ground literally cracks open.
Now Ray can hear every heartbeat in a room and slow down time when danger strikes. That's great for catching oranges. It's less great for passing pharmacology midterms during earthquake aftershocks.
He isn't alone. Ray's squad of medical students includes:
Iron Plow, a gentle giant who lifts water tanks and apologizes to door frames
The Haggler, who can talk anyone into anything, including monkeys
Masala, a Karachi loyalist with flaming hands and very strong opinions about biryani
Punchline, whose terrible jokes can knock out an entire army
Together, with help from a mysterious chai seller and a very bureaucratic international task force, they must stop the Dimmer, a supervillain stealing the nation's electricity one blackout at a time.
Expect rooftop chases through old Lahore, a lightning duel in a palace of mirrors, a final showdown on Clifton Beach, and one extremely confused camel. A few chapters are drawn from real life, from a time when the danger did not wear a costume.
Doctor Pulse and the Load-Shedding Wars is a hilarious, big-hearted superhero adventure about friendship, culture, privilege, and learning that power grows when you share it.
Perfect for readers ages 10 and up who love superhero stories, laugh-out-loud adventures, and heroes from places we don't often see on the page.
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