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Kevin CODE WHITE

KEVIN

 

35-year-old director of computational research at Fletcher Memorial. Creator of Odin, the powerful artificial intelligence program that has been the key to the success of the SIPNI project. Brilliant but temperamental. A daring rock climber . . .

 

. . . He was strikingly handsome, even beautiful, with penetrating blue eyes that contrasted with his red goatee and the slight orange freckling of his skin.

 

He is bitter over the world's failure to perceive his role as the true mastermind behind SIPNI . . .

 

Kevin: "Recognition isn't something you ask for, like that stupid kid Oliver with a bowl in his hands. 'Please, sir, may I have some more?' Fuck him and his little bowl . . . Recognition is something you take. You don't ask. You don't give people any choice but to recognize you. You make your superiority a fact of life in the universe."

 

Since Ali left him and filed for divorce, he has withdrawn into a sullen fantasy world, his only confidants being Odin and Loki, a macaque monkey he liberated from vivisection in the laboratory . . .

 

Ali: "I hurt Kevin. I left him—betrayed him, as he saw it. With his ego in shreds, he has to do something of mind-blowing significance to exalt himself, to prove that he's a force to be reckoned with . . . I know he's gone to a dark place, but he's pulled a veil over it."

 

As he broods alone in the sanctum of his laboratory, his secret, violent thoughts threaten to come to life, destroying himself and everyone around him . . .

 

. . . Twilight of the Gods was one of his favorite myths—a fiery, orgiastic, self-destructive battle, bringing on the end of the world.