Nick Sagan Idlewild 8 CDs (unabridged)

Reader: Dick Hill

Both Clayton Barclay Jones and Beth McDonald give riveting voice performances of this gripping, imaginative debut by Nick Sagan, son of the noted Carl Sagan.

Attention is caught after only minutes when a young man recovers consciousness. He is fully awake but remembers nothing - save for the fact that someone or something wants him dead. Of that he is certain.

He becomes known as Halloween, and is one of nine high school students undergoing training by a strange master called Maestro. They exist in an eerie computer generated virtual reality state. Whom can he trust?

Determined to recover his memory which, apparently, has been erased by a power surge, Halloween struggles on. Amazingly, he is able to utilize abilities that he didn't know he possessed.

However, the question of who he is and who might be trying to kill him is only a very small part of the puzzle he must piece together.

Give "Idlewild" a listen - you won't forget it.