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Essef - Mind meets microchip as a brilliant young genius develops a machine capable of spontaneous thought. Before he can perfect the machine, terrorists steal his research and put a bullet through his brain. Miraculously revived by methods he pioneered, he must find his lost memory and discover who is trying to kill him.
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The world's foremost authority on artificial intelligence had almost perfected a machine capable of spontaneous thought, when industrial terrorists steal his research and shatter his brain with a bullet. Now one surgeon must try to save him using his patient's own research.
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