Receptor Av Alan Glynn

"[Receptor], Alan Glynn's sequel to The Dark Fields (the inspiration for the film Limitless starring Bradley Cooper), grippingly imagines the origins of MDT-48-the series' infamous 'smart drug,' which realizes remarkable human potential."-Entertainment Weekly (New & Notable)Named a Best Book of the Year by The Irish Times (Crime Fiction) and the Irish Independent (Thrillers)One of CrimeReads' Most Anticipated Books of the YearOn a Friday evening in 1953, Madison Avenue ad executive Ned Sweeney enjoys a cocktail in the apartment of a strange and charismatic man he met hours earlier. Ned doesn't know it, but he has just become a participant in Project MK-Ultra, a covert, CIA-run study of mind-control techniques. The experience transforms Ned, pulling him away from his wife and young son and into the inner circles of the richest and most powerful people of his day.In a matter of months, he is dead.It is a tragedy Ned's family struggles to understand, then tries to forget . .. but some skeletons refuse to stay buried. More than sixty years later, Ned's grandson Ray is introduced to a retired government official who claims to know the details of Ned's life and death.Ray is prepared to dismiss the encounter, until he discovers that the now-elderly man once worked for the CIA. Ray digs deeper, and begins to question everything as he uncovers rumors of a mysterious "smart drug"-a fabled black-market cognitive enhancer called MDT-48.