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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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My Bio:
I am a former US Marine
parachutist, recon scout, and Super Squad team leader, with a bachelor's degree in creative
writing. I have taught novel writing for Butler County Community College, have
previously self-published two thriller novels, and I am a founder and former president of
the Kansas Writers Association (a fourteen-year-old group of one hundred and fifty
writers). I have published two thriller novels; Jezebel and Dead
Reckoning. My unpublished thriller A Culling of Innocents was a finalist
for the Rupert Hughes Award at the 2003 Maui Writers Conference. Two other
unpublished thrillers, Jack Knight and The Storegga Effect, won first
place consecutively in the KWA's 2003 and 2004 novel-writing
competitions. My nonfiction book specifically targeting beginning
novelists, Novel Writing Made Simple, won second place in the Oklahoma Writers
Federation's 2004 competition. Brainstorm, my latest thriller manuscript, won first
place in the KWA's novel-writing competition in a previous year and is by far my best
work.
As an independent
editor, speaker, conference organizer and writer, I have made and kept current
numerous contacts with editors and agents in the NY publishing industry as well as
others around the country. I try to stay connected with writers and the writing
industry by doing speaking engagements at writers conferences as well as for writers
organizations and even small groups. I'm also conducting full-day writing seminars and
workshops in the Midwest in cities like Wichita, Lincoln (Nebraska), Kansas City,
Omaha, Des Moines, and St. Louis over the coming months, based on my Novel Writing Made
Simple book.
Over the past fifteen years, I have edited literally hundreds
of fiction and non fiction work. My editing services include the full gamut,
dependent upon the individual writer's needs--from quick read-throughs to full line edits
and story reviews. As a primer especially for the beginning novelist, my Grabber 1250!
is a fun way to help seasoned as well as new writers examine their stories and ensure that
when they present their work to the publishing industry, it will be at its
very best.
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