Since the 80s, more and more so-called "brilliants" were born, people with special talents island, but which it does not limit it to other areas.
These are, with or without the consent of their families, even in childhood separated from them and trained in special boarding schools.
After a has "brilliant" it through his talent, to make a fortune on the stock market and thus paralyzed the financial market has, and John Smith, another "brilliant", tries to sit down by a terrorist act against the state coercion to defend, forming a unit whose task is to protect the company from possible attacks by the "brilliants" and thereby to use any necessary means, the Agent Nick Cooper on the volatile John Smith is scheduled ...
Dystopias normally do not necessarily belong to my favorite genre, but this one I did after some initial suspicion, to have you here eventually resorted to "false" Genre, surprisingly well-liked, what is likely to be mainly in the complex main protagonist Nick Cooper, of the one hand, convinced is that his work is important for the peace and security of his country, but on the other hand do everything it can to preserve its also one of the "brilliants" belonging daughter before admission in one of the compulsory state schools.
Although the author creates a fictional world in "Brilliance", varied references to US politics are unmistakable and so superficially secular struggle between "good" and "evil" is not all as it seems at first glance .. ,
Conclusion: An intelligent mix of spy thriller, and sci-fi dystopia - unusual and somewhat slow start, but then unusually original, exciting and intriguing references to reality - from me there is scarce four asterisks.