Sixteen-year-old Robert’s routine endoscopy results are far from normal. He wakes from unconsciousness to find himself being operated on by a doctor who is being held at gunpoint by a man called Ryan. Robert escapes, opens up his wounds, and sees, for himself, his machinelike insides. Falsely accused of murder, Robert enlists the help of Eddi, who forges him a new identity and takes him to her house in Spain, but the mysterious Ryan stays on their trail. In this taut thriller, Robert, an orphan, struggles to understand who he really is and what it really means to be human. Kevin Brooks has been awarded YALSA Best Books for Young Adults in 2004 for Lucas and 2007 for Road of the Dead , 2003 Branford Boase Award for Best First Novel (UK) for Martyn Pig. Black Rabbit Summer was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, 2009. hc

It was just supposed to be a routine exam. But when the doctors snake the fiber-optic tube down Robert Smith's throat, what they discover doesn't make medical sense. Plastic casings. Silver filaments. Moving metal parts. In his naked, anesthetized state on the operating table, Robert hears the surgeons' shocked comments: What the hell is that?
It's me, Robert thinks, and I've got to get out of here. Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange organs, he manages to escape, and to embark on an orphan's violent odyssey to find out exactly who--exactly what--he is.