The Jonah Kit

About this book

"The most interesting British SF writer of ideas."--J.G. Ballard "Complex and brilliant."--Christopher Priest "Dizzying concepts--not just startling but convincing and satisfying."--The Times The scriptwriter of Steven Spielbergs AI spins another subtle daring and brilliant tale about a very special child. When a young Russian boy disappears from a top-secret research establishment and turns up in Tokyo he presents a major problem for American security officials. The youth appears to be part of a sophisticated experiment--and to have the mind of a supposedly dead astronaut perfectly imprinted on his own. And the boy claims the tests have been extended to a whale. As these strange events unfold other cataclysmic events begin to occur too: a groundbreaking Nobel Prize winner proves that what we perceive as the universe is nothing more than a ghost of the real thing. Then the whales begin singing their death-mantra throughout the worlds oceans.