In the Company of Mind In the Company of Mind
THE VOICES IN HIS MIND WERE FACETSAs the son of a billionaire, Lance Michaels Blackstone seems to have it all—his own VR rig, a personal bodyguard, a luxurious mansion. But the Blackstone fortune is a mask for horror. Jonathan Blackstone uses his son as a guinea pig in illegal medical experiments and punishes Lance when the experiments go wrong. Lance's mother Meredeth knows what's going on, but does nothing to stop it. And Lance loses chunks of time. Days or even weeks sometimes pass while he sleeps. He finds himself in strange places with no memory of how he got there. Odd objects show up in his room and he has no idea where they come from. Total strangers treat him like a close friend. Voices argue inside his head. And then one of the voices speaks directly to Lance, a voice that claims to be an artificial intelligence.
After Lance escapes his father's clutches, Jonathan Blackstone mounts a worldwide manhunt to bring him back, a manhunt Lance has always managed to elude— until now. When Lance is tricked into boarding a space station owned by Blackstone Industries, he is forced to confront his past and the secrets buried in his own mind.