Skin Deep

by Jacqueline Jacques

Imagine a world, in the not so distant future, where it is possible to cure disease, physical disability, even old age by having your brain, with your memories, skills and IQ, transplanted into a new body. In Skin Deep such options become possible. A chest full of frozen brains is found beneath the streets of Berlin. Dreadful to contemplate, these brains were the result of grisly experiments in Buchenwald, the Nazi concentration camp, sixty years ago at the end of WW2.When the story begins some of these brains have already been transplanted into modern donor bodies. TV researcher Clare is given the job of befriending the star success story – Max, a 1930s socialist hero thrown into the 21st century. This is her big break. However, the closer she gets to him the more apparent it is that Max has his own agenda, one that could kill her.

340 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Cat · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a rather disturbing story of frozen brains from a Nazi concentration camp which, after being found in a freezer 60 years after the end of the war, are being transplanted into donor bodies. The book is written from the view point of a girl looking to make a documentary about the story and their adjustments to their new bodies and lives. But all is not what it seems and things start to go wrong. Some good twists and unexpected revelations towards the end after a slow start. Good build-up