Crossing the Line

Robert Palmerton, M.D., neurosurgeon, head of his department at the local medical school, would never have believed that out in space there is a universe parallel to ours, with a planet identical to our Earth, where we humans are duplicated, also identically. Nor would he have believed in alien abduction or in the possibility of extraterrestrial travel. He "is" abducted, however, and is taken to this planet to operate on a critically ill government leader. He performs the surgery, successfully, and is then drawn into a struggle for political power where his life and return to Earth are threatened. He intentionally and seriously injures someone opposing him, and he has a love affair with the beautiful female surgeon who assisted him at the operation. He realizes that in unusual circumstances he can behave in ways and do things he never thought he could, or would. Palmerton gets safely back to Earth, and many events and coincidences linking the two universes convince him that he was indeed involved in this whole episode. He tells his story in an up-front, personal, and factual way, which makes it easy for us to wonder-did it, could it, really happen?