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What if a small American
town is secretly replicated, populated with kidnapped scientists and
psychically talented civilians, and then used as a proving ground
while training psychic assassins? Political and military
leaders of the Free World are the targets of these psychic warriors,
and Project Brainstorm's goal is world domination. The only
person who can stop the unthinkable plot is a seemingly simple man
without a clue.
In BRAINSTORM, Gold Rush
seems to be just another sleepy little Colorado community full of
friendly, caring citizens, quaint cottages, and a sort of quiet
peace, held gently by the picturesque mountains that surround
it. However, something isn't right in Gold Rush, and early on a
Monday morning Robert Weller awakens with a cautioning and
insuppressible voice inside his head. He soon finds a secret
behind every door, a motive with every glance, and a lie beneath
every spoken word. After meeting a strange but beautiful woman
named Sunny who insists they were once lovers, people begin dropping
dead around him without apparent cause. The world he thought he
knew twists upside down as paramilitary teams hunt him, and his own
wife and the people he considers friends turn against him.
After his wife falls dead inexplicably, he is thrown into the middle
of a military mission to rescue thousands of the town's citizens from
a plot to destroy the Free World.
In time, Weller discovers
he was once the CIA's top remote viewer (based on an actual CIA
project called Stargate). He finds out he has telepathic powers
enhanced to a lethal level, and his memory has been erased. His
subjugators have programmed him with new memories through hypnosis
and hallucinogenic drugs aided by old TV shows, commercials, home
movies, and other sensory stimuli. Led by Dr. Xiang Gao, his
handlers are hoping to make him a psychic warrior in order to
assassinate certain heads of state and military
leaders.
Dr. Xiang is no ordinary
general practitioner, and he's certainly more than the Weller
family's trusted physician. Under the guise of a caring doctor,
he is a brutal but brilliant scientist, driven by revenge. As
the son of a Russian diplomat and a Shanghai prostitute, his vendetta
against a cruel world for his horrendous childhood makes him blind to
any sort of human empathy. His band of scientists along with Mike Wu,
who Weller thinks is his best friend/brother-in-law, have molded
Robert Weller into what they hope to be one of the most deadly
weapons on earth, only one of hundreds they are now ready to unleash
upon the world.
But something goes wrong
on the big test day, and Robert Weller shows a psychic talent beyond
their hopes. After unknowingly doing away with a number of his
keepers, Weller breaks free and is in hiding with the assistance of a
strange woman who has seemed to appear from
nowhere.
To stay alive, Weller
subconsciously connects with the ethereal matrix, an eternal grid
work that exists only in the mind (remote viewing). It acts as
a never-ending card catalogue, linking his mind to critical
happenings in space and time--remote places in the past, present and
future--and he uses his seemingly newfound ability to try and
outsmart his keepers and escape to
safety.
In the end...well, you'll
have to buy the book!
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Background about Brainstorm:
BRAINSTORM goes beyond the bounds of ordinary
reason. Research for the novel led me to the CIA's Project
Stargate, a twenty-year exploration into remote viewing and psychic
powers which they actually relied upon even during and after the
Persian Gulf War. Delving into the background information
needed for the project, I did extensive research into the incredible
new developments in non-lethal weapons such as acoustic cannons,
sticky foam, anti-traction substances, electromagnetic pulse devices,
and infrared lasers. I also was reminded of some very sobering
statistics; there are still thousands of American MIAs from the
Korean and Vietnam Wars.
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