BRAINS BRAWN A Novel of Suspense Author:Annie Gottlieb BEYOND Â`ECSTASYÂ' ÂMDMA temporarily lowers interpersonal boundaries, said the Harvard doctor. ÂHex dissolves them. ÂThe potential for abuse, for mind control, is terrifying, said the Berkeley psychopharmacology professor. Outside, packs of painfully thin kids in hex-sign T-shirtsÂthe Âhex... more »iesÂÂquiver and murmur and make their telepathic suicide pacts. Someone is trying to destroy a generation. Sarah ÂSunny Randall wants to know who. The investigative reporter on the story for New YorkÂ's Metro Magazine, 5Â'3Â, Radcliffe-educated Sunny is clueless in the deadly world of dealers and underground labs. But Sunny has a secret weapon: Sasha. Her ÂboyfriendÂÂa streetwise, 6Â'3Â, 250-pound Soviet prison camp survivor and ex-boxer who is friendly with the Greenwich Village Don. Sasha can help Sunny root out the evil mind at the source of hex. But when her ambition and her passion to save the kids get her in too deep, can he save her life?« less