Crack of Doom

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Sam Weber wakes to a nightmare of domestic normality turned inside out: his three-year-old son Henry now speaks with the calm authority of a seasoned scholar, reading history and issuing judgments as if age and wisdom have been reassigned overnight. In the city beyond his home, Sam finds the same eerie reversal everywhere—children running households and businesses, adults bewildered and diminished, and even the butcher and cabdriver behaving as if a radical new order has quietly taken hold. As he searches for meat, for answers, and for some foothold in reality, Sam hears that children are mentally superior to their parents and that a mysterious "transfer" has gone wrong for some people. His panic drives him to Dr. Gregory Thorne, only to discover that the psychiatrist's own granddaughter has taken over the practice, confirming that authority itself has been inverted. What begins as personal confusion becomes a chilling exploration of a society where intelligence, power, and identity have been turned upside down.