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Reviewed by Karen Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
If you like science fiction novels that could someday be reality, you just might like The Genius Dilemma by Dustin Grinnell. Dr. Alan Pierce is a top neuroscientist who teaches at Stanford. His mother is dying from late stage Alzheimer's disease. He desperately wants to discover a cure for the insidious and progressive illness, but he has failed time and time again. Then, he receives a call from Dr. Richard Powell who claims he has invented a drug called Trillium. The drug produces "geniuses" and is also believed to be a cure for Alzheimer's. Because of the potential to create superhuman intelligence, the drug comes to the attention of a secret military intelligence agency headed by General Jonathan Beranger. Meanwhile, at Harvard University, a young man named Thomas is soon to be dragged into a tale of intrigue which will take him on a precarious journey to a country in upheaval.
Readers may see similarities to other brain-enhancing science fiction reads, but in The Genius Dilemma the author delves much deeper into the old belief that there is a thin line between genius and insanity. Grinnell weaves many characters into the story, but each character is unique and true to the role in which he or she is placed. Thomas is an idealistic young man who has no real idea of what has drawn him to his father's roots. Pierce is obsessed with an Alzheimer's cure to the point he risks his professional ethics in order to engage in risky experimentation. Powell is a power-hungry sociopath who will stop at nothing to become wealthy and famous. The general knows better but takes the wrong road anyway. I particularly liked the strength of Dr. Alan Pierce as he faced the dilemma we all fear: when the stakes are high for doing wrong, will we still chose to do right?
