{"product_id":"2000003503421","title":"The Chronology Protection Case: Phil D'Amato Series, Book 1","description":"From of the author of The Silk Code, winner of the 1999 Locus Award for Best First Novel, comes another intriguing blend of science fiction and hard-boiled police-procedural mystery. \"The Consciousness Plague\" is about memory, more particularly, how the loss of memory, in slivers of time deducted from a growing number of individuals, can subtly undermine and play havoc with everything from the investigation of serial stranglings to candlelight dinners. Dr. D'Amato, NYPD forensic detective, investigates a spate of unusual cases of memory loss and finds evidence of a bacteria-like organism that has lived in our brains since our origin as a species and may be responsible for our very consciousness. There's evidence for this consciousness bug in the ancient Phoenician and Viking cultures and everywhere Phil looks in our world. A new antibiotic crosses the blood-brain barrier and inadvertently kills this essential bug. Phil himself becomes a victim of the memory drain, and must...","brand":"Listen \u0026 Live Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47089889771760,"sku":"2000003503421","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2000003503421_p0.jpg?v=1763537456","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2000003503421","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}