The Experiment - John Darnton

THE EXPERIMENT

On a remote island off the Southeast coast a group of young people are totally cut off from the U.S. mainland. They are test subjects being raised in the Lab, a place of almost idyllic conditions-except that from time to time a number of them disappear for mysterious surgeries. One, Skyler, discovers a friend dead in an operating room-with his heart removed-and escapes. He makes his way to New York City and, with a newspaper photo in hand, tracks down Jude, a journalist, who is genetically identical. They search for the mystery of their birth, aided by Tizzie, a doctor with her own dangerous secret. Hunted by unknown pursuers, they flee across country, drawn into the vortex of a conspiracy at the very heart of America's power structure.