Mind Catcher — John Darnton

Brain damaged in a near-death trauma, thirteen-year-old Tyler lies in a New York hospital bed. At his side, his father waits helplessly as two scientists take charge of the boy's fate.

One is a neurosurgeon. His unorthodox approach uses computers to control the patient's responses. The other is a researcher with an experimental method of his own--isolate the spark of human consciousness...and capture it forever.

Together, they're sending Tyler far beyond the frontiers of medical science into a dark and terrifying netherworld of man and machine--a place no living soul has gone before...and from which one desperate person will try to bring him back.