Look out - the good guys are plotting to do a very bad thing. A clandestine team of neuroengineers is set to secretly deploy satellite-based microwave broadcasts to pacify the brains of terrorist populations and rogue dictators worldwide - supposedly to reduce violence and greed, and save humanity from destroying itself. Renegade professor Jack Hadley is the convoluted conscience of this good-guy conspiracy. His wife Mahalena has been kidnapped by ISIS terrorists, provoking him to push the amygdala-zap plot into final action with the secret help of the US President - but three days before the planetary zap, all hell breaks loose. "Ten % Max is mature suspense at its very best - believable, scary and fast-paced, but also perplexing and emotionally engrossing. The novel dramatizes a disaster scenario that could very possibly happen to all of us, where AI-driven mood-manipulation tech could forever damage what makes us truly human." B. Budd Smit.