Most of his childhood Frank Todd felt like a grownup trapped in a child’s body. He had hoped that Chesterfield High would finally welcome him into the ranks of adulthood. Much to his grief however, he discovers that most teachers treat their students as no better than juvenile delinquents and that most kids act as such. In the final year of Chesterfield High he meets Ray Chandier, a kindred soul and only child of the founder of multi-national Chandier Chemicals. Frank and Ray become good friends, until a horrific incident in the last term ends their friendship. After graduation, Ray leaves for Switzerland to study biochemistry and Frank signs up for computer science at the university in his home town.

Years later, Ray, who is researching a cure for Alzheimer’s, contacts Frank with the intention to renew their friendship. Frank, who is employed by Electron International and participates in the development of an Artificial Intelligence computer system, is reluctant at first. Ray not only convinces Frank to try and revive their friendship, but also manages to become part of Frank’s AI development team. Ray hopes to find a cure for Alzheimer’s in the complicated world of electronic relays and expects Frank and his team mates to teach him the tricks of the trade. Shortly after Ray joins the AI team, he builds a laboratory facility in the basement of the Electron building and resumes his Alzheimer’s research.

Ray is consumed by his work in the laboratory and after two years is on the verge of a breakdown. He goes on a trip to Switzerland and returns changed, for the better it seems. Not only has he lost all of the mad scientist symptoms, but on several occasions he demonstrates an increase of his mental abilities: telekinesis, telepathy and foresight.

When Frank discovers that Ray has been experimenting on Alzheimer’s patients and that his former High School buddy is involved in the death of his father, Ray appears in his dreams and warns him to back off. Together with the help of Bill Rankon, a friend who used to work for Army Intelligence, Frank wants to expose Ray for what he is, a power hungry messiah on a mission to change the world.

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