OK--a couple of plot spoilers. Will follow, but first let me say that the only reason I even finished this thing was I was listening to it as an audio book and making a trip out of town where I lost radio reception. I got about half way through it and was disgusted. Then, later, not being able to stand just silence, I finished it. The synopsis of the book mentions that the hero discovers that he is just an ordinary human, not one of the "Elites." It doesn't mention how he finds this out and why he is being chased. Turns out these super humans put their fertilized eggs into containers and that is where their babies come from. And they don't have navels. Our hero is at an important function and it is infiltrated, he saves the day getting into a fight with the guy, but his clothes are torn. One of his fellows Elites screams something about his having a navel--and they go after him. So.... how did he het to his mod thirties without noticing that he has a navel? He and his wife have an android servant. He is not a robot and looks perfectly human. His name is "Electro." Throughout the book, the author appears to have gotten his only knowledge of sci fi from '50s B movies. Everything in this book after the beginning is both ridiculous and predictable. I loved James Patterson in the old days--when he wrote his own work, as with the Alex Cross novels. But don't waste your money on this.