An oldie but a goodie. A flap of a butterfly’s wings — exposure to a contaminated landfill for years, unexpected genetic side effects, and a greedy executive looking to move up make an explosive combination. I wish there had been a follow up story on Amanda’s children. ( )

Nette Idee: übersinnlich begabter Renter flüchtet vor fiesen Konzerngesellen und heilt noch seine Nichte, nachdem die Feinde vernichtet sind.
Dicht und emotional erzählt, das Dilemma eines Mannes, der sehr langsam versteht, was er kann. ( )

This is a bad book. It should be ashamed of itself! It makes a lot of promises that it does not keep.

SPOILERS AHEAD

Jake Pickett is an old man going on 70. He has always been different. He can make things "slip" with his mind. It is not telekinesis - it is molecular decomposition, but he has never used it much. It is just something to amuse the kids on the block. One day he demonstrates his abilities to a middle management type from a large coorporation. This turns out to be a mistake.

Soon Jake is hunted across america by an organisation that seems more like organisede criminals than a (semi) legal coorporation. But you can read past that if you make the effort. When you do so, the first 200 pages are thoroughly enjoyable. Fast paced, well composed and building up to an exciting finish.

200 pages is where you should stop reading and burn the book! Any ending you think up for yourself will be better than what A. D. Foster has written. The last 60 pages are an intolerable mess. Everything breaks apart. The main characters act contrary to earlier dispositions, the writing degenerates and having had but a stumbling sence of what he was doing when he used his ability, Jack Pickett now uses it with microsurgical precission.

Its bad. The end. ( )