Sixteen-year-old Robert Smith abruptly wakes up on a surgical bed and overhears a conversation he shouldn't have heard. A conversation that questions his very existence... What is Robert, after all? An android, a human with mechanical parts, an X-Man, or simply a mistake of nature? Discovering that he is different from a normal human, he flees, terrified and desperate to find answers. But what will happen when he realizes that the answers only provoke fear? Who is he really? [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]