For those of you who don’t remember, The X-Files was a popular television show at the end of the 20th century.  This novel, released in 1999, doesn’t necessarily fit in to any particular time frame in the series run other than having both Mulder and Scully, which would place it somewhere in the first 7 seasons.  The author, Ben Mezrich, is best known for his non-fiction work, which has been adapted into the movies 21 and The Social Network.

When a mysterious disorder causes an ordinary professor to exhibit extreme feats of strength, Mulder and Scully get pulled in to a mystery that leads them from the streets of New York to the jungles of Thailand in order to find the answers they are looking for.

It looks like this was the one X-Files novel that I had not read during the shows original run, other than the movie novelizations, so this was a one time journey back into the world of the FBI’s premiere team for strange and unusual occurrences.