Brother Leper

Brother Leper is at once a haunting mystery, an emotional journey, and a cautionary tale illuminating the psychological dimensions of power and violence. Ellis Corvalis awakes, without memory or knowledge of anything that had happened to him, in the blistering Arizona desert on August 3, 2055. From that point, he moves forward as an innocent child, first to heal the sick, later as a leader of a group abandoned after an inexplicable natural disaster. But his innocence does not last long: faced with the choices that echo what any leader must grapple with, Ellis Corvalis attempts to craft new solutions to old problems, only to find that he is forced into paradigms and positions that limit his options. Brother Leper is a story of poets and healers, visionaries and manipulators, loners and secret societies, a story that foreshadows a world of the next half-century in which people create their own countries at the touch of a keystroke and in which ancient hostilities metastasize in new, malignant ways.