Elixir: A teen-genius medical thriller
by Ted GaldiPublish: Jul 31, 2014Thriller Suspense Teen & Young AdultBook Overview
“Blessings can be curses, and curses can be blessings”A teenage prodigy goes on a suspenseful adventure to cure his girlfriend of a mysterious disease.
This #1 bestseller, winner of a Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award and a Silver Medal in the Readers' Favorite Book Awards, features protagonist Sean Malone, the world’s smartest person.
His journey begins at fourteen. He has a genius IQ north of 200, a full-ride scholarship to the country’s top technical university, and over a million bucks from a winning run on Jeopardy!. However, he wishes he could just be normal.
His genius comes at a price. When he cracks the Traveling Salesman Problem, the hardest enigma in computer science, the US government manipulates him, using his cryptographic discovery to pursue a covert operation and killing innocent people along the way.
When Sean pushes back, the Department of Defense pushes harder, and a conspiracy against him ensues. With the aid of some empathetic FBI agents, the brilliant protagonist flees to Europe to build a new life under a new name, abandoning academics, and hiding his mental gift from everyone.
He enjoys a quiet existence in secrecy the next few years. And at eighteen, falls in love.
The calm shatters when his girlfriend, Natasha, turns critically ill. Her doctors have no idea how to control her disease before it overcomes her. His intellect is her only hope of survival. He knows nobody else can figure out the medical puzzle before her time runs out.
In this hidden identity thriller, Sean brazenly returns to the United States, where he has to avoid the omnipresent eye of the NSA as he tries to piece together a cure. His obstacles intensify when he hacks into the servers of a multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical company. And it finds out.
He now has to dodge not just one, but two powerful institutions on American soil, all while besting a next-to-impossible medical problem and finding a way back to Europe before it's too late for Natasha.
Elixir is a story about identity, secrets, and above all, love.
This Amazon #1 bestselling medical thriller is enjoyed by both YA and adult fiction audiences. Action-packed and fun, while romantic and endearing, the international story serves up an unputdownable reading experience as it unfolds across the globe, ushering audiences to Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Mexico, Rome, Switzerland, and Silicon Valley.
Readers of all types find its parallels to modern society intriguing. An NSA book, reminiscent of the Edward Snowden incident, the technothriller examines the darkness that can loom over government agencies, and the resultant political suspense. And its take on the Ebola virus is an expression of how human ingenuity, if allowed to flourish, can make the world a safer and better place, a hopeful reminder in light of Ebola outbreak 2014.
Elixir is the debut novel of Ted Galdi, whose second book is An American Cage.
A fast-paced, sci fi medical thriller with unique characters and streaks of cutting-edge mathematics, Elixir, written in the tradition of authors like Michael Crichton, is sure to stir readers’ emotions while compelling them to turn pages.
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