Claiming that the fungus has made his brain more efficient, Paul infects their father, whose Alzheimer’s disappears almost overnight. While Neil is initially worried about his brother’s survivor’s guilt, he soon fears that the real problem lies in Paul’s obsession with the fungus that infected him. Paul is also suffering from a severe fungal infection that he picked up in the Amazon.
Despite his lack of qualifications and a series of other unfortunate events, Neil is offered a position and begins working with a team whose purpose is to solve the ‘unbreakable’ codes that no other team can crack.Īlthough Neil is ecstatic about his new job, he worries about Paul, who has just survived a harrowing trip to the Amazon in which his fellow riverboat passengers were all gunned down by an unknown terrorist organization. Frustrated by his failures at school, Neil makes a long-shot attempt and applies to be an analyst at the NSA, a job that his father held for many years before coming down with Alzheimer’s. Neil is a three-time ivy-league dropout, whose intelligence is (apparently) only matched by his ability to irritate campus administration.
THE GENIUS PLAGUE ( Amazon) follows the lives of two brilliant brothers, Neil and Paul. I was telling a friend about this book and the first thing that came out of my mouth was “I learned a lot about fungus.” Don’t worry! There are plenty of other fun things to recommend this book, such as NSA code breaking and creepy assassinations, but Walton has found an interesting hook and then amplified it until you will willingly read an entire book about fungus taking over people’s brains.
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