Daniel Hecht

A culture of hate is identified in populations across the world, promoting civil confict and genocide - all symptoms of an epidemic termed The Babel Effect. Can Ryan McCloud, major league problem solver, establish whether the epidemic has a biological, neurological basis before it is too late?

The New Jersey State Police had started calling him Howdy Doody, after the famous TV puppet of the 1950s. Three people killed in northern New Jersey, then three in Manhattan and another in the Bronx, in a thirteen-month period. And all of them hung up with strings attached to their limbs, like puppets. Finally the …