National bestselling author Charles Wilson delivers a cutting-edge thriller based on real-life experiments at improving human intelligence currently underway in both government and private circles. Imagine a computer chip no bigger than the tip of a pencil. This chip, if implanted in a human brain, could give someone encyclopedic knowledge, lightning-fast reflexes and superior learning skills. In a remote military hospital in Montana, an experiment...

"Since the eighteenth century, a vast range of thinkers, artists, writers, and critics have wrestled with the notion that something distinct characterizes life in the American South. But in this sweeping new intellectual and cultural history, Charles Reagan Wilson reveals that there has never been a singular understanding of this 'southern way of life.' Considering nearly three centuries of regional expression in history, literature, music, recreation,...

In Aworld where only the crazy know the truth and those charged to heal and protect may be the sick instruments of death, attempting to Indenty the guilty is a very dangerous Bussiness.

A tale of murder, deceit, and treachery played against a backdrop of organized-crime activity along the humid coast of a state in the Deep South, The Cassandra Prophecy once again demonstrates why Charles Wilson has been praised as a storyteller in the grand tradition of John D. MacDonald. As a member of the United States Secret Service, Clay Rodgers has been in many high-pressure situations; the most notable being when he risked his own life to save...

Describes the author's early experiences as a sharecropper's son and a KFC executive before building a preeminent urban farm to feed, educate, and employ thousands of at-risk youths.