Gray Matters Author:William Hjortsberg On an undisclosed date in the early 1970s a living human brain was successfully removed from the cranium of a 12-year-old boy and preserved alive. — The operation was performed by Dr. Frank Sayre, Jr., a NASA engineer employed in secret space research. — It marked the beginning of a new era, more sinister than anything man had previously known. — "... more »A book of unrelenting intensity - brilliant throughout."