Interceptores / Intercepts - by T J Payne (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

EL FENÓMENO INTERNACIONAL DEL TERROR QUE ARRASA EN BOOKTOK.

Creó el arma perfecta y ahora se ha vuelto en su contra.
Sabe dónde vive y conoce a su familia.

Joe Gerhard dirige una instalación gubernamental secreta donde seres humanos convertidos en cobayas son sometidos a una privación sensorial extrema. Una tortura que convierte sus mentes en un arma capaz de interceptar información, a cambio de convertirlos en seres violentos e impredecibles. Son las Antenas.

El gobierno está orgulloso de Joe. Su conciencia está tranquila, siempre que su hija Riley no descubra nunca a qué se dedica en realidad. Pero cuando una de las Antenas rompe el control, Riley comienza a sufrir visiones tan reales como aterradoras.

Mientras el proyecto se derrumba y el gobierno decide eliminar cualquier rastro, Joe deberá enfrentarse al monstruo que ayudó a crear... incluso si eso significa perderlo todo.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation. His work just followed him home.

This hardcover edition includes a special, never-before-published short story!

"Inventive, scary, wholly entertaining, and deeply thought-provoking . . . T. J. Payne is the real deal." --Jose Molina, writer/producer on The Vampire Diaries, Sleepy Hollow, and Firefly

Joe works for an organization known only as "The Company." He cannot speak about what he does in public. He and his employees live in a constant state of paranoia that The Company is listening to their phones and watching their search histories. Why? Because on the bottom floor of the facility, rows of padded cells keep a group of humans in a constant state of extreme sensory deprivation. With their minds awake but their senses unable to ground themselves, they have gone insane, oscillating between vegetative states and fits of violent rage.

These experiments have a purpose, though--when the minds of these inmates transcend their physical selves, they're able to "intercept" the sights and senses of anyone in the world. The process, however, is painful. Torturous.

Joe likes to think that his work, helping the government track down bad guys, makes the world a better place. He has no regrets. Until the day when his ex-wife dies by suicide. He learns that a woman who looks very much like one of Joe's inmates had been haunting her. After his ex-wife's death, Joe's daughter Riley comes to live with him. And then she begins to have visions of the woman too...

Has Joe somehow played a role in turning the government's most sinister weapon against his own daughter? And, most important of all: how far will he go to save her?

Review Quotes

La critica ha dicho:

«Aterradoramente real. Payne equilibra el terror y la ciencia ficción con un dominio absoluto de ambos géneros y demuestra que las instalaciones gubernamentales ocultas pueden ser mucho más terroríficas que cualquier casa encantada».

A. M. SHINE

About the Author

T. J. Payne nació y se crio en Portland, Oregón, y se trasladó a Hollywood con la intención de escribir comedias románticas, pero, a medida que perfeccionaba su oficio, sus historias fueron derivando hacia territorios más oscuros. Finalmente encontró su voz en el terror. Hoy explora las profundidades de la crueldad humana, con la esperanza de que sus personajes logren pequeñas victorias en un mundo sombrío. Vive en Los Ángeles con quien fue su novia del instituto y hoy es su esposa.