Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one. His publisher has described it as 'a thriller for people who don't like thrillers'. One newspaper put it thus: 'It is terribly written, its characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialogue is excruciating in places and, a bit like a computer manual, everything is overstated and repeated - but it is impossible to put the bloody thing down.

Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.