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Eric Norton awakens in a police interrogation room scarred by a meth lab explosion with no recollection of his past. Traced by both authorities and his criminal employers, he is forced to navigate a world where his memories are scrambled into street slang and obscure drug references. A mysterious drug called "skin"—capable of synthesizing sensations of touch—restores fragments of his life as a covert chemist and his connection to a woman named Desiree. As he struggles to discern genuine memories from fabricated ones, Eric confronts the painful truth that the search for identity can be as painful as the loss of it.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Crime Fiction/Criminal Underworld
Authors: Craig Clevenger
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