If I hadn't been trapped on a long plane flight I would have thrown this piece of trash away without a thought. For a Harvard grad the author apparently hasn't learned much about research or the ability to accurately portray science. The characters are stock one dimmensional, the plot is ludricrous, and the background is just plain silly. I can easily allow for some literary license, but atmosphere can be best created through accuracy in details; the author fails miserably on this score (ie, his description of the hospital and ED settings...oxygen cylinders are always green, not orange, for example). I do appreciate his effort at attempting to find a scientific basis for the supernatural, but believe he should have thought it through more before commiting it to paper. His characters need a lot of work.