The Arcturus Man

Jared Siemels is unlike any other man or woman living today. Born in
Latvia in 1981, his birth was a massive leap in human evolution, a leap
that had not previously occurred for tens or hundreds of thousands of
years. He is as different from modern humans as they are from
prehistoric man. Far advanced physically and mentally, he is desperate
to be ordinary. And despite his great intellect, or because of it, he
has no innate understanding of love, faith, or morality. It is a story
about being different in a world that demands sameness. What does it
mean to be human?Ripped away from his family, at the age of six
Jared is brought to America and enrolled in a special program for gifted
children at M.I.T. After coming of age, he leads a lonely and
increasingly tormented life on his island home off the coast of Maine.
His is a reclusive and secret world. A megagenius, his royalties from
his many inventions have made him a rich man but he finds little comfort
in his wealth until he meets Jenny, a young marine biology doctoral
candidate. Struggling to love him and hoping to understand him, she is
drawn into the perverse maelstrom of his immense genius. Her rival is a
perfect cyber-woman created by Jared. There are powerful and
dangerous men who fear Jared and want to destroy the products of his
brilliant mind. His most recent discovery could deny terrorists their
most potent weapons. Assassins are sent to kill Jared. He and Jenny
are pursued relentlessly as they travel to the jungles of Panama to
elude and then face their relentless tormentors.