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|title=Being

|author=Kevin Brooks

|date=March 2007

|isbn=978-0141381442

|website=http://www.myspace.com/kevinbrooksauthor

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A routine endoscopy looking for stomach ulcers ends sixteen-year-old Robert Smith's conception of himself as a teenage boy like any other. Conscious but still anaesthetised, he can hear the commotion surrounding an operation gone wrong. For the surgeons haven't found an ulcer. Instead, they have found a network of mysterious and advanced technological implants. Terrified, they have called in a shadowy government agency and a sinister agent called Ryan appears to be directing the doctors. And then all hell breaks loose. On the run from the authorities, Robert hooks up with Eddi Ray, the ex-girlfriend of an old friend's brother. Eddi specialises in producing false identities and together they try to find out what has happened to Robert.