Defragmenting Daniel: The Organ Scrubber by Jason Werbeloff is compelling sci-fi that will keep readers rapt by the writing, and squirming most of the time as they read nonstop. It is a story of the trafficking of human organs and utter abuse. Daniel’s work at the Gutter Orphanage is to scrub kidneys and he started this work when he was a young teenager. Things are going well for him and he could live without complaining about the job, but then he becomes victim to the worst form of theft and abuse – his organs are stolen. Life with fake organs can be tough, but Daniel wants more than just to get his organs back. He wants revenge. Question is: does he really know what he is up against?

Jason Werbeloff’s Defragmenting Daniel: The Organ Scrubber is book one in a trilogy, a powerful opening about a problem that affects the poorer segment of society. Most readers must have heard or read about the trafficking of organs, especially in Third World countries, but Werbeloff makes this reality seem like it’s just happening next door. The author writes beautifully and the descriptions are painfully poignant; at times readers will feel the hair on their skin rising when they read some of the dramatic and gory parts of this fictional narrative. Daniel is the kind of character who will win the sympathy of many readers as they watch him develop from a docile, easily manipulated and timid boy into a man who wants to be treated with justice and dignity. This is a work of great imagination, powerful, and gripping.

Jason Werbeloff’s The Organ Scrubber is Book One in the Defragmenting Daniel trilogy, a sci-fi that will take readers into an unimaginable world and bring them face to face with characters capable of doing impossible things. Daniel is an orphan at the Gutter, an orphanage with a shady business in organs. At the age of 12, Daniel is already working hard as an organ scrubber, cleaning kidneys. It is the perfect job for anyone in Daniel’s situation, because it comes with advantages that other orphans may not have. But things aren’t going to be the same for Daniel. His own organs are stolen by the orphanage and he knows he’ll never be the same again. Now grown up, he decides to get his organs back and he will do anything to achieve this. The only thing is that someone will do anything to stop him.

Those who have watched and loved the movie Get the Gringo by Mel Gibson will enjoy The Organ Scrubber, and it must be said that this is not a tale for the fainthearted. A story created around a very bad business where institutions that claim to protect the lives of the poor and the organs that become their very nightmare is sure to get a lot of attention, but it is the style with which this story is told that will take one’s breath away. Who could not love Daniel? Who will not feel his pain and want to see him avenged? As you read this gory tale, you’ll feel you are plunged in a darkness you’ll never escape, but a kind of suffocating and enticing darkness. Jason Werbeloff’s characters are compelling, his plot is gripping, and the entire story is so poignantly absorbing.