Prologue

    Papa Eugene—short for the President’s Project for Advanced Eugenics Research—was shut down in 2011.  A secret committee earmarked the last $6.5 million of funding for the enormous task of eradicating all evidence that the project ever existed.  Not too surprisingly, much of that money wound up in the pockets of a few high-ranking bureaucrats and the cover-up was bungled.  
    Twenty-two sets of identical twins aged eight to eighteen were terminated.  Records were shredded, hard drives wiped clean, the experimental campus dismantled, the grounds bulldozed.
    Then, almost immediately, campus personnel began meeting unfortunate deaths, typically by “suicide.”  
    But twenty-four sets of twins had been clonally replicated, not twenty-two.  Two sets—four super-intelligent kids—were unaccounted for.  Unaccountably unaccounted for.  And Dr. Roberta Lopez, a latecomer to the project team, had disappeared, eluding the authorities.  Maybe it was she who tipped the kids off. Someone must have.
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