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The brand-new novelfrom the author of Lucky Bastard and Breathers--oneof today's very best writers (Jonathan Maberry)Ayoung man is having an identity crisis while working as the head of theInvestigations Department for the Los Angeles bioengineering firm EngineeringGenetics Organizations and Systems. A quarter of the wayinto the twenty-first century, EGOS has developed and produced a groundbreakingtechnology in the form of a consumer product called, oddly enough, Egos. Thisproduct allows customers to become a fictional character or a dead celebrityfor six to eight hours by injecting a DNA-laced cocktail into their brain stem,revolutionizing the concept of role-playing games. When a colleague stumblesupon an anomaly in a group of Egos that the unnamed protagonist has beeninjecting regularly for the past three years, the brass at EGOS waves it off asnothing to be worried about--except he is exhibiting behaviors that are in linewith the reported anomaly. The truth is, he's started to lose the ability toseparate fact from fiction. The more he continues to play the role of someoneelse, the less of him remains, as the lines of reality and fantasy continue toblur.