With the help of a mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100 percent of his brain abilities, a struggling writer becomes a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with lots of dangers.
It’s never fun to lose your job. It’s especially not fun to lose your super cool job solving crimes at the FBI where you have access to a magic pill that enhances your brain, only to have to move back into your parents’ house. It especially sucks when a scary British guy whose life you once helped to save has kidnapped your girlfriend and unleashed a deadly drug upon the city of New York, and there’s not a thing you can do to stop it.
This is the situation Brian finds himself in four weeks after the FBI arrests Sands, and it totally sucks. Even though Sands is in jail, he’s got a group of cronies (whom Brian has dubbed “The Legion of Whom”) who still have Piper stashed away somewhere, and now that Brian doesn’t have access to the immunity shots, the FBI won’t let him take NZT. He’s reduced to trying to piece together clues in his dad’s garage in between shifts at a local electronics store. Every now and then, he gets NZT aftershocks, brief moments of clarity that help make him better at selling TVs, but they never last long enough to really help him find Piper. Before his last pill wore off, he wrote down everything he knows about Morra, Sands, and the Legion of Whom, but when he’s not on NZT, it’s mostly just a lot of nonsense.
