A fast moving thinking person's thriller, The Babel Effect explores evil and goodness from a neurological and genetic standpoint.
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"Is violence a virus? Can your genes make you a killer? Why are we so willing to hurt each other? .. Combining systems theory with modern epidemiology, they soon realize that our propensity for violence resembles a contagious disease. But is the human carnage of the last hundred years an ancient plague or a new nightmare? Can they identify the cause and find a cure? ... they realize that finding the answers depends on a still more urgent and terrifying question: Can they survive the search?"
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Providing a modern plausible reason for man's inhumanity, it is a too convincing tale where the inescapable horror may lie within.
