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“Hybrid”
Brian O’Grady

I just finished reading Hybrid and my head is still spinning! If you want to read a book of a simple plot with focus on romance, want descriptive travelogue phrasing, philosophical musings, and don’t want to have to think too hard this is NOT the book for you! BUT if you crave a novel that is the opposite of that and is perfect for a reader who loves to be challenged, educated, thrilled, entertained and can deal with a plot that will give you nightmares, then this IS the perfect book for you!

This new writer, O’Grady, is amazingly skilled in blending suspense, urgency, medical and scientific scenarios and yet is able to bring the reader through it with ease! I definitely saw the influences of Crichton, and Cook, with some of the chilling and raw writing style of Stephen King and the art of Dean Koontz in character development and ability to bring these diverse people to a well executed ending. Some of the reviews unfortunately seem to focus on this chilling book as a “virus” gone wild BUT I felt it was more a plot that uses the “outbreak of a deadly virus” only as its impetus that drives the plot. This book is way more than that! Very quickly O’Grady shakes the reader to their core with the challenges of what do you feel about “evil” … If you could possess the abilities to do amazing things with your brain, you could read minds, plant thoughts, use skills that seem ultimately paranormal … would you choose to have it if you knew that along with these “gifts” you will also be forced to battle with thoughts and drives that are pure evil? I gave this a lot of thought as I read and I made my decision so you read it and make your own choice.

Amanda Flynn is a woman who was working in a Honduran camp when a fierce virus is released and killed everyone in the area … she is the only survivor! After intense treatment back in the States, Amanda is restored to herself but she is “changed”. She seems to have access to all of her brain, no longer limited to the near 10% most humans can use. Terrified by her new abilities and her new enhanced brain, Amanda is forced into drastic actions when she hears that a new “hybrid” of this same virus is being deliberately spread … she has to come out of hiding from a group that seeks to confine her and study her, even use her blood and harness her paranormal skills to aid the group in their twisted goals. Amanda sees her only choice now is to “sound the alarm” and stop this from happening and at the same time, contacting the newly metamorphosed victims. Amanda knows what the instigators do not fully appreciate … That is the relentless compulsion to do violence that accompanies what can only be described as “pure depraved EVIL”.

One of the most terrifying twists in this book is that Amanda has a very sadistic stalker!! A man who is her equal in their enhanced brains and yet her opposite to every good, compassionate, emotion she has … this man is one of the most sadistic, demented characters since Hannibal Lecter, who is determined to indulge his bloodlust at any cost. He is responsible for my loss of sleep this week!

About the Author:
Brian O’Grady is a very accomplished man listing his own impressive abilities as Neurosurgeon, astrophysics enthusiast, Ironman competitor and classic car restorer. O’Grady is a husband and father of three. This is his debut novel in Fiction.

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