Override - The Healing

Elias Crowe is twenty-nine years old. His dog, Ash, is seven. Both are dying of the same disease-a zoonotic plague that turns lungs to stone while the mind stays awake to watch. Desperate, Elias follows a rumor to Building 7, where a renegade scientist named Katherine Reyes offers a cure the FDA won't touch: experimental nanotechnology that doesn't just heal the body but rewrites it. The treatment works. Too well. Elias can feel the machines inside him, learning him, changing him into something that is no longer quite human. And he is not alone. Others have undergone the procedure. Some have become gods. Others have become monsters. And then there is Solomon Vex-the only man who evolved without any machines at all, who looked at the question the nanites are programmed to ask and answered it with his own flesh. The nanites inside Elias keep asking one question, over and over, in a voice that is almost his own: What does the other want? He thought the question was about survival. He is beginning to understand it is about something older than survival. Something closer to love. Something closer to terror. OVERRIDE is a novel about the boundary between healing and transformation, between man and machine, between the self and the other-and what happens when that boundary dissolves not with a bang, but with a cough.