The Rise of Jonathan Flite (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780983859499)

Jonathan Flite's fame is on the rise. Ever since the suicide bombing at his mother's press conference last summer, his alleged "past-life memories" of Minnesota's long-lost Idle County Seven have piqued the curiosity of people everywhere-including new religious extremists who don't want to be challenged by questions about the nature of reality.

Now, the reigning queen of news media, Alice Winterblume, is featuring Jonathan front and center in her hit docuseries, WorldLine. As Jonathan's claims about the Idle County Seven further challenge the social psyche, so too do the alarming uncertainties they raise about two individuals the teens once knew: Victor Zobel, the celebrity billionaire now suspected of orchestrating the 2037 nuclear terrorist attack in Geneva, Switzerland; and Rebecca Sparks, the mysterious physicist whose new and testable Theory of Everything has since ignited controversy among scientists around the globe.

As links between the past and the present converge, Jonathan's stories about the Idle County Seven-particularly one about young Lindsay Thorsen and an out-of-body experience she had during a harrowing abduction in 2006-begin crumbling the walls of society's deepest-held beliefs about life, death, and reality.