Deprivers

<p><strong>Imagine never touching another human being...</strong></p><p>Robert Luxley has a biological problem he does not understand and cannot control: one touch from his bare skin and you're paralyzed for fifteen minutes. </p><p>Lonely and isolated he's turned his special trick into a lucrative career as a hired killer. He thinks he's one of a kind-until one day he's confronted by a young girl named Cassandra who tells him he's not alone. </p><p>She has it too and the two of them are not the only ones.</p><p>Carriers can render anyone they touch blind deaf or otherwise senseless in seconds. </p><p> Fearing discovery Luxley follows Cassandra through a dark underground network of Deprivers in a desperate hunt for her missing brother Nicholas taken hostage by a radical group of carriers with a terrifying agenda. </p><p>Luxley doesn't know who to trust or who is safe to touch but he needs to learn Cassandra's secrets fast.</p><p><strong>A book that gets under your skin and on your nerves. The science is impressive; the fiction is haunting. It has a lot on its mind; and it will touch you.- Mark Frost co-creator of <em>Twin Peaks</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Deprivers</em> is the ultimate paranoia thriller-emphasis on the word thriller. Fans of everything from <em>The Hot Zone</em> to <em>The X-Files</em> take note THIS BOOK IS GOING TO BLOW YOU AWAY!- Rockne S. O'Bannon creator of <em>Alien Nation</em> <em>Farscape Defiance </em>and <em>Cult</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Deprivers</em> will take you to a terrifying and disturbing tomorrow and make you feel like you live there.- David Brin Scientist and science fiction author winner of the Hugo Nebula Campbell and Locus Awards</strong></p><p><br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>