Adam Fawer: Improbable, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

David Caine, brillanter Spieler und mathematisches Genie, leidet an Epilepsie. Nach einem besonders schlimmen Anfall lässt er sich auf einen Versuch mit einer unbekannten Droge ein, mit ungeahnten Folgen. Er kann mögliche Konsequenzen jeder beabsichtigten Handlung vorhersehen. Daran haben natürlich auch andere ein Interesse. Working underground poker clubs, epileptic gambler David Caine suffers his worst seizure after a costly miscalculation and agrees to test an experimental medication, but when he begins to experience bizarre visions, he embarks on a dangerous quest for survival alongside a rogue woman CIA assassin.

Klappentext

From a brilliant new talent comes a riveting novel of chance, fate, and numbers, and one man's strange journey past the boundaries of the possible.

David Caine inhabits a world of obsession, rich rewards, and rapid, destructive downfalls. A compulsive gambler and brilliant mathematician prone to crippling epileptic seizures, he possesses the uncanny ability to calculate odds of any hand in the blink of an eye. But one night at an underground poker club, Caine makes a costly mi scalculation, sending his life spinning out of control. Desperate, he agrees to test an experimental drug with unnerving side effects: inexplicable visions of the past, present, and future. Unsure whether he's perceiving an alternate reality or suffering a psychotic breakdown, Caine embarks on a journey that stretches beyond the possible into the world of the improbable. Gradually, he discovers the extent of his astonishing new ability -- but powerful, shadowy forces know Caine's secret. Now Caine must fight for his survival -- and his sanity . . .