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Zusatztext "Addictive." Informationen zum Autor Gillian Anderson is an award-winning film! television! and theater actor and producer! writer! and activist. She currently lives in London with her daughter and two sons. Jeff Rovin is the author of more than 100 books! fiction and nonfiction! both under his own name! under various pseudonyms! or as a ghostwriter! including numerous New York Times bestsellers. He has written over a dozen Op-Center novels for the late Tom Clancy. Rovin has also written for television and has had numerous celebrity interviews published in magazines under his byline. He is a member of the Author’s Guild! the Science Fiction Writers of America! and the Horror Writers of America! among others. Zusammenfassung The first novel from iconic X-Files star Gillian Anderson and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Rovin: a science fiction thriller of epic proportions. Renowned child psychologist Caitlin O’Hara is a single mom trying to juggle her job! her son! and a lackluster dating life. Her world is suddenly upturned when Maanik! the daughter of India’s ambassador to the United Nations! starts speaking in tongues and having violent visions. Caitlin is sure that her fits have something to do with the recent assassination attempt on her father—a shooting that has escalated nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan to dangerous levels—but when teenagers around the world start having similar outbursts! Caitlin begins to think that there’s a more sinister force at work. In Haiti! a student claws at her throat! drowning on dry land. In Iran! a boy suddenly and inexplicably sets himself on fire. Animals! too! are acting irrationally! from rats in New York City to birds in South America to ordinary house pets. With Asia on the cusp of nuclear war! Caitlin must race across the globe to uncover the mystical links among these seemingly unrelated incidents in order to save her patient—and perhaps the world. ...