Limitless

Author/Guide: Alan Glynn

Why a Booktrail?

2000s: Imagine a drug that made your brain function to its full potential….

ISBN: 978-0571273348
Genre: Technothriller, Thriller

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What you need to know before your trail

A drug that allowed you pick up a foreign language in a single day. A drug that helped you process information so fast you could see patterns in the stock market.

Just as his life is fading into mediocrity, Eddie Spinola comes across such a pill: MDT-48 – a sort of Viagra for the brain. But while its benefits materialise quickly, so do certain unwelcome side-effects. And when Eddie decides to track down other users, he soon discovers that they’re all dying, or already dead.

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New York City

They say the city never sleeps and in this book that’s more than true. The central character takes a pill so that he barely sleeps and his performance in life, leraning, doing a deal on Wall street etc, is all enhanced and made all the more powerful.

Wall Street becomes his playground as this drug allows him to play it like a child’s toy piano. He can learn a language in a single day.

But how much power does Wall Street have, and more importantly do the pharmaceutical companies have? The main ones are all based in this city that never ever sleeps.

Manhattan is alive with the chaos, traffic and crowds it’s known for. Here however everything seems heightened and more alive than usual. The cars on the streets seem faster, the crowds denser, the noises louder just like the effects of the pill on Eddie. He does work for a book publisher though so he ‘s not all bad!

Mexico

The scale of the conspiracy behind the drug trails its grubby little way to Mexico where the drug appears to originate from. There is war between the two countries and the war on drugs is a much more dangerous and consequential one than a regular drug it would seem.