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K-PAX IV

A New Visitor From The

Constellation Lyr

Gene Brewer

Copyright © 2007 by Gene Brewer.

ISBN:

Hardcover

978-1-4257-1889-3

Softcover

978-1-4257-1890-9

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Contents

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

EPILOGUE

A DECLARATION ON GREAT APES*

SUGGESTED ADDITIONAL READING

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Anything is possible.

—prot

PROLOGUE

This book can be understood and enjoyed by those who have not yet read K-PAX (1995), K-PAXII:OnaBeamofLight (2001), and K-PAXIII:TheWorldsofProt (2002).

To fully appreciate the context, however, I urge you to read the trilogy prior to, or immediately after, reading fled.

The aforementioned series describes the appearance, in 1990, of a man who claimed to have arrived “on a beam of light,” from the planet K-PAX, some 7000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra, and records my attempts, as a staff psychiatrist at the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute, to determine his true origins and treat his apparent delusion, which continued until the time of his final “departure” in 1997.

For those of you who have read the first three K-PAX books, it should be mentioned at the outset that prot makes no further appearance in the present work. This should come as no surprise, however, as he himself stated that he would not be making a return trip to Earth.