When Nina Harper and Bryan Nelson see the sign, they thinks it to good to be true. All they have to do is watch television with electrodes strapped to their heads, some guy takes notes, and Nina and Bryan get paid. It's a cinch.
But nobody tells them about the side affects. Nobody tells them that every student who takes part in the experiment changes - really changes. At first the students' behaivour turns a little weird, then it gets disturbing. Before long it grows horribly, brutally violent.
Nina seems safe from the side effects - for now, But will she be safe from the vicious attacks sweeping the campus . . . and from Bryan?
An experiment in terror . . .
"You!" Kerri hissed. She had stopped dead in her tracks, her feet planted firmly in Nina and Elizabeth's path. "I knew you were after me! How long have you been following me?"
Nina put her hands up, palms out as if to deflect Kerri's fury. "Nobody's floowing you, Kerri. We were just on our way back from - "
"Shut up!" Kerri's voice screeched. Her shrill voice echoed across the campus. In the distance, Nina saw a few heads turn with surprise in their direction. "I know you're lying! You want to kill me dead . . . well, it's not going to happen!"
All at once nina felt as if she were standing outside herself, watching the scene unfold in slow motion like a movie. Kerri reached inside her coat. Nina's mouth opened and formed a soundless no. Beside nina, Elizabeth's hands flew to her face.
And then in a split second that seemed to last forever, Kerri pulled out a gun. Gripping it in both her uncontrollably trembling hands, she aimed it straight at Nina.