Being by Kevin Brooks

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It was just supposed to be a routine exam. But when the doctors snake the fiber-optic tube down Robert Smith's throat, what they discover doesn't make medical sense. Plastic casings. Silver filaments. Moving metal parts. In his naked, anesthetized state on the operating table, Robert hears the surgeons' shocked comments: "What the hell is that?"
"It's me," Robert thinks, "and I've got to get out of here." Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange organs, he manages to escape, and to embark on an orphan's violent odyssey to find out exactly who--exactly what--he is."

I had great hopes for this book. After reading the back I couldn't wait to find out what the 

mystery was. This book reminded me of a young version of the Jason Bourne series. It had 

the same sense of urgency to know what was going to happen next, who were the good 

guys and who were the bad, all tied in a mystery of who or what Robert Smith is. While the 

story line was interesting, the books lacked in other areas. The author was good at 

describing things but at points he gets so descriptive that I would lose what he was talking 

about and could not picture it at all. He also had the story moving fast, but it seemed like it 

took him a long time to get where he wanted the reader to go. While it was an interesting 

novel, it did not turn into a favorite. It would be a good book for adventure spy types that 

don't mind the perfect ending. 


I give this book a 2 out of 5 stars.