Polymath

Even in his high school years, it was clear to all who knew him that Todd Iverson is special. There are no sciences, no technologies, and no arts he cannot master. There is no field of human endeavor he will leave untouched. He has the power to transform human civilization utterly, and he means to do so.Todd does have a few little problems. For one, his mother crippled him emotionally by artificially orphaning him, abandoning him to become a nun just after his father's death. For another, he can't abide the idea that anyone might be better than he is—at anything. For a third, he might just be a sociopath: the most dangerous sociopath ever to be born among men.The powers of darkness are aware of him, and they don't plan to let him work unmolested.But Todd will not go his way unmentored or unprotected. The most powerful creatures on Earth have resolved to complete his upbringing and bring his strength to fullness:Malcolm Loughlin.Christine D'Alessandro.And Louis Redmond.Todd will find love and deliberately forsake it.He will know the most terrible kinds and occasions of loss.He will enter the world of business, first as an employee, later as an entrepreneur.And his powers will reach their zenith just as a most improbable figure takes the White House.For Todd Evelyn Iverson has his eyes on the skies. He has resolved that Man shall leave his species' womb at long last. As Stephen Graham Sumner and the Constitutional movement rise to prominence, he is preparing to set his foot upon the first rung of a ladder to the stars. It's a ladder he is uniquely qualified to design and build.Polymath chronicles the bursting of an Onteora County giant from his chrysalis to spread his wings over the world. It's the fourth novel of the Realm of Essences series, and begins the story of an American Renaissance.