A Darkness In My Soul

Superman – or Supermonster?

That's the tagline to this book.

In my honest opinion this is not one of his best books, but it is one of his earlier ones.

FYI this is a 2 minute review. Aka it took 2 minutes to write. Anything more would have been a waste.

The main character Simeon Kelly was created artificially in a laboratory as an experiment to aid the military. He mostly manages to live as his own man, but when they call he is obliged to answer, albeit extremely reluctantly. He can telepathically extract information from the minds of others.

Simeon is called in to extract information from the mind of their latest creation, another mutant who Simeon refers to as ‘Child'. ‘Child' is a vicious and extremely insane genius with the appearance of a shrivelled/ageing child.

Upon entering Child's mind Simeon discovers it to be vastly different, and more dangerous, than an average individual's mind. He becomes stuck inside ‘Child's' mind.

After that it's a bit of a surreal trip through Child's mind.