Mind catcher

Since the other characters introduced in the beginning here are a brilliant, arrogant, and innovative neurosurgeon and a psychologist intent on probing the limits of the human mind, it’s a sure thing that the 13-year-old boy going mountain-climbing won’t come to a good end. And indeed he doesn’t when a piece of climbing equipment is dropped from a height and imbedded into his skull. The boy, Tyler, is whisked off to a Manhattan hospital where Saramaggio, the neurosurgeon, has been called in to perform a medical miracle. Tyler’s father, Scott, is given a tough choice. Saramaggio and Cleaver, a…