Brilliance

Brilliance can be a curse when the dirty mudbloods are envious. People with special talents, government conspiracy, moral philosophy, ethics, the usual thriller stuff, but it´s especially amazing for readers like me with one important requirement: Not having read all the amazing comic universes out t......more

When I was a small maggot, I read a lot of thrillers. My father would give me his hand-me-down paperbacks, all called things like DEAD MAN RUNNING and POINT BLANK and AGENT ZERO. All featuring manly authors in leather jackets on the back cover, often posing with their dogs, SUVs, or Kalishnikovs. An......more

Savant syndrome is a known condition in which a person demonstrates profound and prodigious capacities or abilities far in excess of what would be considered normal. Although this is often linked to autism, in circa 50% of cases the impacted child is non-autistic. What would happen if a proportion o......more

2.5 or 3 stars. Not what I wanted it to be. More of a cop one man saving the world drama and that is not my gig. Also, the writing felt like a bad cop show.......more

Brilliance is a captivating and thought-provoking thriller that serves at one level as a parable about the course of events in the United States in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The premise of the plot is that beginning roughly in 1980, once percent of the babies born in the world were "Brilliants,"......more