Simmons received the World Fantasy Award for his first novel, Song of Kali; the Hugo Award for his epic Hyperion; and horror's highest honor, the Bram Stoker Award, for his novel Carrion Comfort. Now he masterfully combines all three genres in this novel about one man's journey through a landscape few would dare to visit: the deepest, most private hells of other people's minds.
Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own. For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the burden of this terrible knowledge. But Gail is dying, her mind
ebbing slowly away, leaving him vulnerable to the chaotic flood of thought that threatens to sweep away his sanity. Now Jeremy is on the run--from his mind, from his past, from himself--hoping to find peace in isolation. Instead he witnesses an act of brutality that propels him on a treacherous trek across a
dark and dangerous America. From a fantasy theme park to the lair of a killer to a sterile hospital room in St. Louis, he follows a voice that is calling him to witness the stunning mystery at the heart of mortality.