Improbable

Adam Fawer

About this book

Working underground poker clubs, epileptic gambler David Caine suffers his worst seizure after a costly miscalculation and agrees to test an experimental medication, but when he begins to experience bizarre visions, he embarks on a dangerous quest for survival alongside a rogue woman CIA assassin.

David Caine, a compulsive gambler plagued by crippling epileptic seizures, gets more than he bargained for while testing an experimental medicine. Unsure whether he's perceiving an alternate reality or suffering a psychotic breakdown, Caine discovers that powerful forces want him for their own. A highly original debut novel by an aspiring new talent.

Subjects

  • compulsive gamblers
  • drugs
  • epileptics
  • experimental medicine
  • fiction
  • fiction, thrillers, general
  • new york (n.y.), fiction
  • side effects
  • visions