DOUBLE-BLIND
By Michelle
Butler Hallett
It’s the
1970s, the
final icy
winter of
the Cold
War.
American
psychiatrist
Josh Bozeman
finds
himself in
St. John’s
as part of
covert
research
group SHIP,
the Society
for Human
Improvement
and
Potential.
But SHIP
defines
"improvement"
and
"potential"
as anything
that can be
forged into
a weapon.
Enter
Christy
Monroe, one
of Bozeman’s
favourite
patients, a
nine-year-old
girl with an
extraordinary
psychic
gift. She
becomes
Bozeman’s
subject in a
SHIP
double-blind
experiment
where the
whole
reality is
dangerously
obscure,
blurring the
lines
between
patient and
doctor, duty
and
conscience,
sanity and
madness.
Twenty-five
years later,
Bozeman is
drawn into
an even
darker
paranormal
agenda that
sends him
back to
Newfoundland
as the
principal
player in an
endgame that
could have
mortal
consequences
for Christy,
or for his
own soul.
Double-blind
is a
feverish
story of
complicity,
empathy, and
the
extremities
of duty and
love.
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