Mind Catcher by John Darnton

Mind Catcher by John Darnton

New York City: a thirteen-year-old boy named Tyler lies in a hospital, his brain damaged in a tragic accident. By his bedside, his father stands helplessly, as two very different scientists take charge of the boy's fate. One is a neurosurgeon, whose unorthodox experiments use computers to control a patient's physical responses during surgery. The other is a researcher with experiments of his own, ones so secret he can reveal them to no one: his attempts to find the spark of human consciousness.and capture it forever.

Together, they will produce a result beyond anything they could have conceived, sending Tyler far beyond the frontiers of medical science into an astonishing netherworld of man and machine--a place no living person has gone before and from which one desperate person will try to bring him back.

John Darnton has worked for The New York Times for 39 years as a reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent. He won two George Polk Awards for coverage of Africa and Eastern Europe, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for tales smuggled out of Poland during the martial law period. He is a New Yorker.