The internationally bestselling, award-winning Japanese thriller about a child who may be the future of the human race -- or the cause of its extinction.

During a briefing in Washington D.C., the President is informed of a threat to national security: a three-year-old boy named Akili, who is already the smartest being on the planet. Representing the next step in human evolution, Akili can perceive patterns and predict future events better than most supercomputers, and is capable of manipulating grand-scale events like pieces on a chess board. And yet, for all that power, Akili has the emotional maturity of a child -- which might make him the most dangerous threat humanity has ever faced.

An American soldier, Jonathan Yeager, leads an international team of elite operatives deep into the heart of the Congolese jungle under Presidential orders to destroy this threat to humanity before Akili's full potential can be realized. But Yeager has a very sick child, and Akili's advanced knowledge of all things, medicine included, may be Yeager's only hope for saving his son's life. Soon Yeager finds himself caught between following his orders and saving a creature with a hidden agenda, who plans to either save humanity as we know it -- or destroy it.

Author: Kazuaki Takano
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Published: 12/02/2014
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.6lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780316226226


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2014 pg. 54
Publishers Weekly 10/06/2014 pg. 44
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2014
Publishers Weekly 11/03/2014
Booklist 11/15/2014 pg. 25
Library Journal 07/01/2014

About the Author
Kazuaki Takano studied Film Studies at Los Angeles City College and has worked for many years as a scriptwriter in Japan. Genocide of One is his first novel to be translated into English.