The Adam Project

by William Woolfolk

Margaret Downing, an anthropologist, tries to protect Adam, a feral child given incredible psychic power by an experimental DNA implant and now in danger from those who wish to control his powers

Genres: Fiction

Mass Market Paperback

First published December 12, 1983

Reviews

[Mark Smiley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three and a half stars, actually. A quick read. Medical thriller ,kind of. A boy is found who has survived apparently without being in touch with other humans. He is a "wild boy of the jungle". A kind person brings him back to the states and her partner is a doc who implants other human tissue into the boy"s brain in order to try to make him grow in intelligence, above the primitive level. Of course it works and wonderfully so. Soon the boy is a model citizen, capable of speech or reasoning, of learning. He soon is smarter than those around him and the big bad government wants him. Phones are bugged, conversations taped. Strike forces break I to the house! But he is gone, his mind expanded to the state where he can hear e helicopter co in from miles away. Not only does his thought process speed up but his physical body does too. He must escape but still lungs for. Contact with the kind woman scientist. Will he get caught? Will he escape? You must tread it yourself to find out