Robert J. Sawyer is my brother’s buddy, Nebula and Hugo award winning SciFi novelist.
His latest is called Triggers:
On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin’s bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life.
At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories.
Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest. He has a near-death experience-but the memories that flash through Jerrison’s mind are not his memories.
It quickly becomes clear that the electromagnetic pulse generated by the bomb amplified and scrambled Dr. Singh’s equipment, allowing a random group of people to access one another’s minds. …
A Sikh lead character.
And an all too plausible plot line — the USA deciding to take out nuclear power Pakistan.
A great read, as are all of Sawyer’s books.
If you’ve read none, I’d recommend starting with Wake.
Rick McCharles 