Being

Being by Brooks, Kevin. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780439899734.

"The Fugitive" meets "Blade Runner" with a Kevin Brooks kick in this heart-stopper about a boy who discovers hes not one hundred percent human. It was just supposed to be a routine exam. But when the doctors snake the fiber-optic tube down Robert Smiths throat, what they discover doesnt make medical sense. Plastic casings. Silver filaments. Moving metal parts. In his naked, anesthetized state on the operating table, Robert hears the surgeons shocked comments: "What the hell is that?" "Its me," Robert thinks, "and Ive got to get out of here." Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange organs, he manages to escape, and to embark on an orphans violent odyssey to find out exactly who--exactly what--he is.