A psychiatric patient makes a compelling case for his extraterrestrial home in this "gripping... touching and suspenseful" novel -- now a major motion picture (Publishers Weekly).
Psychiatrist Gene Brewer doesn't have a diagnosis for the mysterious new patient who calls himself "prot" (rhymes with goat). But this strange and likeable man cannot be -- as he claims -- from the planet K-PAX.
Or can he? Prot knows facts about space that confound experts. He soon reveals Dr. Brewer's own deepest pains and most sublime longings. And his tales of K-PAX have other patients competing to go along with him when he heads "home".
Now the doctor is racing the clock to find prot's true identity before he loses a man whose "madness" might just save them all...

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• Publication Date: January 15, 2001
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• Print Length: 260 Pages
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