Geniusz

by Graham Masterton

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W 1942 roku grupa Japończyków dokonuje zuchwałego porwania pewnego naukowca. Wydarzenie to odbije się echem ponad pół wieku później, kiedy to młody, spokojny, niedoszły muzyk Micky Frasier dokona heroicznego czynu i uratuje napadniętego przez dwóch zbirów doktora od niechybnej śmierci. Ocalony mężczyzna jest kimś wyjątkowym, geniuszem w każdej dziedzinie, a spotkanie z nim całkowicie odmieni przeciętne dotąd życie Frasiera. Doktor jest wynalazcą metody znacznie poprawiającej funkcjonowanie ludzkiego mózgu i w ramach podziękowania postanawia podzielić się głęboko skrywanym mrocznym sekretem ze swoim wybawcą. Poznawszy go Micky wplącze się w przerażającą aferę zagrażającą życiu jego samego i najbliższych mu osób.
Geniusz to powieść o marzeniach i cenie, jaką trzeba zapłacić za ich spełnienie.

Genres: Horror

427 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2003

About the author

Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs' novel The Wild Boys.

At the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. His latest, Wild Sex For New Lovers is published by Penguin Putnam in January, 2001. He is a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Woman, Woman's Own and other mass-market self-improvement magazines.

Graham Masterton's debut as a horror author began with The Manitou in 1976, a chilling tale of a Native American medicine man reborn in the present day to exact his revenge on the white man. It became an instant bestseller and was filmed with Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Burgess Meredith, Michael Ansara, Stella Stevens and Ann Sothern.

Altogether Graham has written more than a hundred novels ranging from thrillers (The Sweetman Curve, Ikon) to disaster novels (Plague, Famine) to historical sagas (Rich and Maiden Voyage - both appeared in the New York Times bestseller list). He has published four collections of short stories, Fortnight of Fear, Flights of Fear, Faces of Fear and Feelings of Fear.

He has also written horror novels for children (House of Bones, Hair-Raiser) and has just finished the fifth volume in a very popular series for young adults, Rook, based on the adventures of an idiosyncratic remedial English teacher in a Los Angeles community college who has the facility to see ghosts.

Since then Graham has published more than 35 horror novels, including Charnel House, which was awarded a Special Edgar by Mystery Writers of America; Mirror, which was awarded a Silver Medal by West Coast Review of Books; and Family Portrait, an update of Oscar Wilde's tale, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which was the only non-French winner of the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger in France.

He and his wife Wiescka live in a Gothic Victorian mansion high above the River Lee in Cork, Ireland.

Reviews

[patrycja polczyk · Rating 2 out of 5]

First of all I need to say I read it in polish translation, which was crappy at times. While story isn't bad, but I didn't really feel like I liked any of the characters. This book seems to be written in a hurry and to be honest it wasn't that thrilling at all. I'd categorize it as another beach book...

[Igor · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book was unfortunately not interesting enough for me and I ended up not finishing it, having read 80% of it. The story had a lot of potential, but it got boring, with a lot of it revolving around missile targeting system which I found very uninspiring and non-relatable. The characters lacked personality and their motives are unclear or hard to believe in real life. The book barely had any thrilling moments for me. I decided to move on to books which I don't have to force myself to keep reading.

[madzia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nie moje klimaty

[Green_Gravity · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brutalna. Byly momenty ciezsze do przejscia, ale ogolnie fascynujaca

[Ninjakicalka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Aaale się wynudziłaaaaam. Na szczęście pod koniec wjechały eksperymenty medyczne i jednostka 731, hurra!