When a gay administrative clerk named Sykes discovers he has paranormal abilities, his quest for their source forces his emergence from yet another kind of closet. Soon he stumbles into a web of intrigue and danger that involves a covert genetics experiment called Project H.E.L.I.X. Will Sykes succumb to his adversaries who will stop at nothing to prevent him from exposing their secret?
Balthazar Sykes is just an ordinary man who works at a New York advertising agency. But he quickly discovers he possesses extraordinary psychic abilities. His dreams become mirrors to the past, revealing his friends’ most private secrets. His thoughts manifest themselves into pure energy, giving him superhuman abilities. His search to discover what is happening leads Sykes on a page-turning adventure into the mysteries locked within the human mind. As events unfold, Sykes finds himself lost in a maze of metaphysical intrigue and immediate danger. At the center of it all is a covert genetics experiment called Project H.E.L.I.X. With the help of his closest friends, Sykes twists and turns through lies and deceptions on his quest to discover the truth about the source of his powers. Each hour, Sykes’ abilities continue to strengthen, becoming much more powerful than anything science or the military could have envisioned. His adversaries will stop at nothing to prevent him from exposing Project H.E.L.I.X. to the world.
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Sykes did not have a clear view of the monitor. Instead, he focused on the greenish aura that caressed the spikes of Ultra’s hair and felt something snap. It was as though he were sucked into the monitor through the back of Ultra’s head. Numbers and letters in a variety of fonts and point sizes flashed by like images in a 360-degree theater. Thin filaments of phosphorescent color snaked around him like the glowing trails of fireflies against the black of night. Every so often, they formed an entire 3-D network in myriad geometric forms, first as a cube; then as an ovoid, and so forth. Each time one faded, it was replaced by another. This succession progressed at such a frantic pace it appeared as an ever-changing lattice that morphed into any shape it desired. With more intense concentration, Sykes saw digitally written information within this greater framework. But, instead of characters and numbers set next to one another, they lined up in a progressive fashion. Sykes was a microbe swallowed by an interlocking cosmos of living symbols.
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