Paul S. Piper Livres

Can too much insight be dangerous? Jack Toyokata, a coder in the Seattle high-tech world, begins experiencing severe memory loss and resorts to an Internet supplement called InSight. Remarkably, the supplement works, but it has side-effects. Jack begins experiencing dreams of past murders from the victim's point of view. With the help of an FBI agent, they discover the murders are related, and connected to a worldwide shipping magnate, Lightfoot, who they suspect is smuggling illegal wildlife. Through the dreams, Jack encounters an elephant guide named Peho who leads Jack through a labyrinth of smuggling and murder in a nail-biting race for justice. A Buddhist monk, a new love, and an exciting new career emerge from the ashes.

During her incarceration in the Minidoka Internment Camp in southern Idaho as a young teenager, Yuki Waldren experienced an incident so devastating it scarred her life. Now at 65, Yuki is dying of incurable cancer. Taking a new perspective on her life, and her identity as a Japanese-American, she decides to confront her worst nightmare head on. Her final journey, a draining physical and spiritual one, is both a meditation on death, as well as a pilgrimage to Minidoka and Southern Idaho to confront her past and the perpetrator of the crime.