My Brothers Keeper

by Charles Sheffield

Book Overview

TIME-SHARING TWINS Lionel Salkind was a rising musical star. His twin brother, Leo Foss, was a researcher in government work that he couldn't talk about. Then the helicopter they were flying crashed.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441551327
• ISBN13: 9780441551323
• Release Date: August 1982
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 216 Pages

Customer Reviews

Great Action Thriller - Misleading cover

I am glad that this book is being reprinted. I have worn out previous copies reading them.As a mystery thriller, it is one of the best I have read. On top of that, as an SF book, the 'science' of the story is intriguing.The plot and the characterization of the two brothers is what takes this book from 4 stars to 5 stars. The antagonist is truly evil.Oh yes, the cover.. Have a sense of humor.. The 'hero' is supposed to be a pianist. The cover looks like the 'Hulk'.Enjoy!!!!

Does two (minds) into one (body) go?

Lionel Salkind, a world-class pianist, meets his twin brother Leo Foss (a naturalised american CIA agent) only for both of them to sustain fatal injuries in a not-so-accidental helicopter crash. Doctors manage to save Lionel by transplanting half of Leo's brain into his less-damaged body. In consequence, Lionel finds that his dead twin is still alive, buried within his brain. In three months, Leo will be able to communicate directly with Lionel and the outside world - but Leo's enemies don't know which twin survived, and are taking steps to protect themselves, and the mysterious "Belur package" they took from Leo's body...An interesting premise - all the more so when you consider that everything in the novel is theoretically possible. Lionel is clearly a more conservative character than his James Bond clone brother (who seems to have girlfriends or wives in every corner of the globe), and is desperately trying to make a new life for himself, knowing that his brain damage has almost certainly ruined his playing, while his emotional centres have been replaced by Leo's. And, of course, there is a 70% chance that when his brain and Leo's finally knit together, that he will suffer a fatal stroke. A gripping biotechno-thriller, with a limping, battered, possibly dying protagonist, I strongly recommend this book

a younger effort but a great read!

i read this one by accident, years ago, when i thought it looked interesting in the bookstore and i had never heard of the author before. since then i think i have reread it a dozen times. a little choppy in the progression of the storyline, but a neat premise. twin brothers, separated at birth and raised apart by different family members, develop different lives as adults. but being twins enables them to be perfect matches for each other when an accident nearly takes both lives and the organs of one are harvested to save the other. this includes part of each brother's brain- when the nerves begin to reconnect, the survivor starts experiencing memories of the dead twin's secret life... and it turns out he's not the only one who wants to understand the rest.