Brain Swapping

By TARAK GHOSH

This thrilling psychological science fiction starts with a mysterious brain-swapping experiment performed by a neuroscientist on two identical twin sisters. The twins have the same physical attributes, including fingerprints and irises, making it impossible to tell them apart. The scientist is dating one of the twins while married to the other. His research uncovers a confounding mystery, but then tragedy strikes when one of the twins is found dead. With the stakes as high as ever, the scientist must uncover the truth before it's too late.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Aug 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9783755449058

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Brain Swapping

BRAIN

SWAPPING

A  scientific discovery has sparked the emergence of an enigma.

TARAK GHOSH

BRAIN SWAPPING ( Sci-Fi Thriller) by Tarak Ghosh

Copyright © 2023 Tarak Nath Ghosh

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Book design by (T. Kashyap)

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First Edition: August 2023

Books by Tarak Ghosh

Beyond the Space (Romance, Paperback & E-book), Castle Waits (Romance, Paperback & E-book) Silent Cockpit ( Non-fiction), Flight 73 (Aviation Mystery, Non-fiction), Flight 648 (Aviation Mystery, Non-fiction), I Am Suzan (Romance, Paperback & E-book), Silent Shriek (Non-Fiction), Hunger Never Fades Away (Romantic Fiction Paperback & E-book), Lucy (Collection of short stories, E-book), Hell Flower (Sci-Fi, Paperback & E-book), Fire Dekha, A Bengali memoir, The Snake Woman (Sci-Fi, Paperback & E-book), Lust & Poison (Sci-Fi, Paperback & E-book), Indian Meditation (Paperback & E-book)

This book is dedicated to my daughter Sayani and son Soura.

About the Author

Tarak Ghosh

English-language author Tarak Ghosh also serves as the editor of a digital newspaper. He began writing novels and short stories after spending 34 years as a journalist before making his literary debut in English in 2012. His experiences exploring and attending numerous events in India and overseas have greatly enhanced his literary world. He saw many of society's dark edges while working as a political journalist later in life and as a crime journalist earlier in his career. They have consistently given his writing a new dimension.

Tarak Ghosh mostly writes science fiction, but he has also written several paperbacks on a wide range of genres that have been published in Germany, India, and the United States. On aviation mysteries, he has already authored four non-fiction books. In addition to an in-depth book on serial killers, he has authored other suspense and mystery paperbacks.

Foreword

I met Tarak Ghosh, the author of Flight 73’ when he was a journalist. Tarak was then working as a crime journalist for an English daily newspaper. He had a passion for reporting crimes with a bit of complexity or when the police didn't find the modus operandi of the crime. He wasn't interested in publishing any crime news, just hard news. He was always trying to get deeper into the crime news. He continued the murder investigation alongside the police. And he published that report in his paper. When we, the other journalists, left that switched to other news, we would see Tarak Ghosh working day and night to unravel the mystery of the murder.

Along with the police, he enjoys solving mysteries. Tarak would see if the man the police had identified as the killer had done so himself. In many cases, we have found that the motive for the murder or murders identified by him was not consistent with the police investigation. In those cases, his newspaper didn't even publish those stories. However, he was so sure of his investigation that, in the end, we found that the internal investigations he had done in his papers on the many murders proved to be true.

Then he ended up in journalism and entered the world of literature. His first book was In Crime and SuspenseThere was a unique thread in every crime novel he wrote. His detective character, Frank Davis, was also very different from the traditional detective character. There was such tension in his thoughts, plans, and operating procedures that readers waited with bated breath until the last page of the novel.

Preface

I've been wondering about new stuff to write about for a long time. It is very difficult to find anything new in the world of literature today. Even when I went looking for the title of the novel, I found that there was a book with the same name as I thought. Maybe the subject is different, but the title is the same. As a result, when I was becoming increasingly depressed, an American friend of mine, Tony, said, Write a crime novel that will have a new kind of crime in it.

I began to think. I started looking at the newspaper's crime pages- if there is a hint of something new. At this time, one of my relatives came from abroad. He's doing some research on twin brains. However, I learned a lot from him.. Then he went back. In the meantime, I was quite busy working on another article. When I finished writing that piece, I was reminded of writing a crime novel. After thinking about it for a week, it suddenly came to mind: "Let's start with the twin sisters- the story of two twin sisters and a Neuroscientist. The two sisters will be so similar that they cannot be identified in any way.

The background to this story begins with tense suspense involving a photojournalist, two twin sisters, and a neuroscientist. My relative opened the door to this novel. Then the research work began. That's because a large part of this crime scene is about such a research that hasn't been done so far.

Finally, the novel Brain Swapping was written. And behind the writing of this story are two real-life twin sisters. I've noticed everything they do. I think the plot must please the readers and give them a new question about a new crime.

Tarak Ghosh

Date: June 2023

Prologue

Twin sisters and a well-known neurologist serve as the story's main protagonists. Their bodily forms, hair hues, fingerprints, and irises are all the same, in addition to being the same. It implies there will be no way for biometric information to distinguish between the two.

The neuroscientist starts dating one of the twins after marrying the other. His research has two goals: first, to uncover the mysteries of the human mind, and second, to determine whether identical twins have distinct mental characteristics. But all of a sudden, things changed. The death of one of the twins is unsolved. But who is the victim? How was she killed? Who killed her?

The psychological suspense thriller 'Brain Swapping’ is wrapped in an uncommon sense of tension and suspense. Several problems and mysteries keep cropping up one after another. While investigating, the detective gets perplexed. Finally, the killer offers an open challenge to Doctor Coleman: 'Brain Swapping’. It's a strange psychological suspense thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat until the end.

BRAIN SWAPPING

Chapter 1

Brain and Brian

Freya forced her way through the door and into the room. She flung her sweaty jacket over a chair as she took it off. Crossing her legs on the coffee table, she sat on the sofa and untucked her sweaty silk blouse from behind her back. She leaned back into the cushion, closed her eyes, and rested her head against it, hoping for some relief. Her mind continued to race over the events of the last five hours. She had tried to shoot nature and expected to get a job in the magazine. Her efforts, however, were draining. Things were simply not going her way. A chain of thoughts flooded her brain.

All of her rage was directed at Dr. Coleman. Freya realized Dr. Brian Coleman was certainly involved in some sort of illegal activity. The camera was not lying. Who is that woman whose picture she took? Doctor Coleman introduced his wife, who resembled the woman who lay dead by the grave. As soon as Freya remembered something, she snatched her hand from her jeans pocket. Instantly, she took out a pen drive that she had forgotten about. Her face lit up with a grin at that moment. The stupid doctor couldn't even think that as soon as she took the pictures, she copied all of them to the pen drive. He felt secure after deleting the photographs on the memory card and Google Drive.

But who is Dr. Coleman? Freya asked herself. The name was very familiar to her, but at that moment, she couldn't remember exactly. Although they had never met face-to-face, there was no doubt that Brian's name and face were familiar to her. She had seen pictures of him many times on TV and in the newspapers, but she couldn't recall why he was so well-known. A storm was building up around her, and all of her arguments were becoming intertwined. Freya sprung to her feet as soon as she remembered something. She was dashing into her bedroom, but her phone rang at that very moment. The sound of the ring was coming from the kitchen counter. So long as she remembered, she forgot to take the phone. She dashed into the kitchen and grabbed the phone.

Hi, Mom. Freya was taken aback by the ring and took a moment to respond.

Where were you? Mom asked angrily. You left your phone here. Freya, did you hear me?

Yes, I heard you.

"I couldn't contact you. Was it a part of your plan?

There was still tightness in her voice.

No, Mom, it's not a plan. I forgot to take my phone. And Jose—you know, Jose Patterson, my friend—I went to meet him. I tried to call you, but anyway, the network was busy somehow.

It's all right, honey; I was worried since your father wasn't at home. I will be right back. Make sure you eat your lunch on time. Goodbye, honey."

The phone was disconnected. Freya let out a sigh of relief. She avoided lying as much as possible. But the incident that happened was different, enough to frighten Mom. Freya thought.

Freya recalled Dr. Brian once more. Where did I see him? She thought again. She attempted to search her mind. The mind has many places to store information, but it can also bury essential memories that are difficult to locate in real time. She was about to shout, I got it! as if she had discovered something precious.

Freya took out her laptop, turned it on, and went to YouTube to look for Dr. Brian Coleman. The first video of a science conference titled Neuroscientist Meet had come out. Brian, the man she had met during the previous terrible hours, was speaking at a scientific conference in Los Angeles. He appeared to be a kind, well-educated socialite in that environment. It's difficult to imagine the cruelty he showed on her last day. Freya increased the volume after playing the video.

"Memory, in its