Jack the Bodiless

The year is 2051. A lengthy and difficult period of adjustment has finally yielded worldwide peace on Earth, freeing humankind to dedicate itself to nurturing the metapsychic abilities that some among them have begun to develop. Led by the Remillard family, the people of Earth are about to take a step toward a new, golden future - as full members of the Galactic Milieu, a confederation of the astonishingly varied worlds spread across the galaxy.

But somebody - or something - has a different future in mind. It calls itself "Fury", and it is fiercely determined to stop the Remillards from carrying out their plan for humanity. Only two people know about Fury; Rogi Remillard, the chosen tool of the most forceful being in the Milieu; and Rogi's nephew Marc, the greatest metapsychic yet born on Earth. But even they are powerless when Fury begins to strike down the members of their family and other metapsychic operants - devising the murders so that the surviving Remillards appear to be the chief suspects.

Death among the Remillards mounts - each murder more shocking and bizarre than the last - but now a new life is added to their ranks, and the birth of Jack Remillard may herald the next step - at once dazzling and terrifying - in human evolution. The powers of Jack's mind are stronger even than those of his brother Marc, but they are equaled in strength by the lethal genes contained in his DNA, genes programmed to destroy his body, cell by cell...

Jack the Bodiless - a novel of grand sweep and imagination - is the first in a brilliant new trilogy. Telling the story of Marc's youth and Jack's childhood, it brings us to the threshold of a new galactic civilization where human beings, struggling to understand and control the superhuman powers that will define their future, find themselves struggling as well to protect the life of a child who may be the only being capable of ensuring the future for them.