Nick Cooper – just “Cooper” to his friends – might be
considered a traitor to his kind. His kind is the gifted, also known as
brilliants, abnorms, twists, freaks… the small segment of humanity born with
special abilities. Not X-Man powers like teleportation or pyrokinesis, though:
just a little tweak to the brain that makes them much, much, much better at one thing than “normal” people.
Imagine an NFL running back who can see where the defense will be in two
seconds instead of where they are now; or a savant who can predict to the
microsecond when any stock will rise or fall. Get the picture?
Cooper’s gift is pattern recognition. He can look at a
person’s face and instinctively know what they’ll do; what they’ll say. He can
even look at a person’s cell phone bill or credit card charges and figure out precisely
where they’ll be tomorrow. That ability makes him invaluable to his employer;
the government agency charged with fighting a “silent” war against abnorm
terrorists, terrorists like John Smith. For a decade, Smith has been killing
innocent civilians and, for a decade, “Equitable Services” and Cooper have been
on his trail.
That’s about to change: in a desperate move, Cooper goes
underground, into the giant Wyoming compound of the abnorms. His cover story?
He triggered a terrorist bomb that killed over a thousand; and now his old unit
is on his trail – and they’ll shoot first and ask questions later.
What Cooper learns inside that compound, however, will
change his life…
