By John Darnton
In an remoted laboratory, a attempt topic discovers a human corpse with its center removed...
In manhattan urban, a journalist investigates a murder sufferer with its face and fingerprints removed...
Drawn jointly by means of medication and homicide, those males are approximately to make a discovery that may swap every thing they give thought to technological know-how, nature, and themselves...
They proportion a similar face.
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