The winner of many international prizes and awards, Dan Simmons returns to the sci-fi thriller genre with his impressive, thoughtful novel about the power and pain of telepathy! Jeremy and Gail were doomed to melancholy and loneliness by their ability to read other people's thoughts - until they found each other. Once they got married, they became closer together in a way that no ordinary non-telepathic couple could. And when Gail died, Jeremy was literally at the end of his rope. Exhausted by the surrounding “neuro-noise”, unable to swim out of the raging ocean of other people’s thoughts, choking with hopelessness, he embarked on a journey through all the circles of his personal hell... Simmons masterfully showed Jeremy’s winding path in the darkness of despair, in search of deliverance from the “neuro-noise” and flirting with suicide. Mixing chaos theory, quantum physics and neuroscience, the author built an original scientific explanation of telepathy...Publishers Weekly