Amazon.com description: Product Description: An extraterrestrial force of unknown origin is causing the minds of every living creature on Earth—from insects to human beings—to begin expanding at an astounding rate. No one knows when it will stop … or if it can be stopped. A pulse-pounding thriller, The Radiance concerns the effects of this unseen anomaly, focusing the story on two estranged brothers: industrialist Cale Walker, one of the richest men in the world, and his younger sibling Travis, a struggling farmer and former Army Special Operations combat officer. Behind the scenes Cale assembles a task force he dubs the Radiant Project, a select assembly who are tasked to find a way to combat the phenomenon. The tycoon then recruits Travis for this crew to give his “everyman” take on things. Reluctantly Travis agrees, but as the effect intensifies the erstwhile Ranger stumbles across its true origin, the discovery of which will lead to a radical rethinking of everything he thought he knew.