The Child Buyer Author:John Heresey Mr. Jones had a plan for improving the nation. It involved purchasing gifted children and reducing them through drugs and surgery to brilliantly efficient thinking machines. He was not a monster, and his plan was not a nightmare. He was a humanitarian, and he acted in the name of progress and reason. His plan was so chillingly logical that almos... more »t no one could find a way to resist or refute him.« less