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La fille du représentant indien à l’ONU se met à parler une langue inconnue et souffre de violentes visions. Une jeune Haïtienne manque de se noyer sur la terre ferme. Un étudiant iranien s’immole par le feu...

À New York, Caitlin O’Hara, psychologue pour adolescents renommée, est chargée de traiter la jeune Maanik. Elle est convaincue que les crises de sa patiente ont un rapport avec la récente tentative d’assassinat qu’a subie son père et qui n’a fait qu’aggraver les tensions entre l’Inde et le Pakistan.

Mais lorsque, partout dans le monde, des adolescents commencent à présenter les mêmes symptômes, Caitlin est obligée de reconnaître qu’elle a affaire à quelque chose de plus sinistre encore...

The first novel from iconic X-Files star Gillian Anderson and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Rovin: a science fiction thriller of epic proportions.

Renowned child psychologist Caitlin O’Hara is a single mom trying to juggle her job, her son, and a lackluster dating life. Her world is suddenly upturned when Maanik, the daughter of India’s ambassador to the United Nations, starts speaking in tongues and having violent visions. Caitlin is sure that her fits have something to do with the recent assassination attempt on her father—a shooting that has escalated nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan to dangerous levels—but when teenagers around the world start having similar outbursts, Caitlin begins to think that there’s a more sinister force at work.

In Haiti, a student claws at her throat, drowning on dry land. In Iran, a boy suddenly and inexplicably sets himself on fire. Animals, too, are acting irrationally, from rats in New York City to birds in South America to ordinary house pets. With Asia on the cusp of nuclear war, Caitlin must race across the globe to uncover the mystical links among these seemingly unrelated incidents in order to save her patient—and perhaps the world.