Cold White Fury

A freak accident. A tiny, unnoticed fragment of metal is embedded in an infant's brain. Eight years later the bizarre is triggered, a phenomenon that goes undetected by medical personnel, but which may save America from a sinister conspiracy.Widowed Jennifer Bolton is desperate to deny the strange voices that her young son Tanner has started hearing. But when their home is ransacked and their lives threatened by fearful, unseen forces, Jennifer decides to flee. What she is about to discover is that the fate of millions hangs on the strange, paranormal gifts of her innocent son. How he will use them is now left up to the two of them...if only they can survive.

From Publishers Weekly

A freak car crash that kills geneticist Tim Bolton and leaves a metal sliver embedded in the brain of his six-month-old son, Tanner, is the core of this first-rate supernatural thriller debut. Eight years after the accident, Tanner begins hearing voices?including Tim's?and the boy and his mother, Jennifer, find themselves at the center of a sinister conspiracy involving Tim's experiments. Amos loads her story with intricate details that lead to a knockout ending, and she breathes life into Jennifer and Tanner through scenes filled with maternal instinct and preadolescent innocence. This tender relationship between mother and son remains the only certainty in a novel filled with convincing twists. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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