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The Gemini Man.
by Richard Steinberg
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0385490518
- ISBN 13
- 9780385490511
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About This Item
Doubleday, April 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. Great book! Clean pages, no marks, mild shelf wear on dustjacket. From Publishers Weekly: Steinberg gives a philosophical veneer to his fast-paced first novel of Pentagon eugenics and the superman who stands up to the brass. U.S. Gen. Alex Beck fashions a force of solo saboteurs from superior misfits in the military population and sends them on mostly fatal missions to wreak havoc in enemy countries. Beck and his bosses on the Joint Chiefs of Staff try to control these often self-destructive killing machines (whom they identify as a new race, Homo crudelis) with psychiatry. So when Beck's star agent, Brian Newman, is released after six years in a brutal Siberian jail (why the Russians didn't just shoot him is never explained) for killing thousands in a nuclear disaster, the brass promptly imprisons him in the gilded cage of an underground Munich sanitarium with a flock of arrogantly deluded shrinks. Once Newman escapes, however, he captures Beck and takes revenge on those who used and abused him. Can Uber-Rambo Newman overcome his own psychopathic tendencies and bring on a new millennium of super-humanity? Or does his evolutionary edge spell the end of the mediocre race that gave him birth? The perfectly open ending sparks impatience for the promised sequel. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. """"From Library Journal: Brian Newman is the ultimate American espionage agent: crafty, agile, and strong, he is much more intelligent than his colleagues or his foes. Why, then, is he feared by his Russian captors, his American employers, and the psychiatrists studying him? In this fast-paced, thought-provoking thriller, we learn that Newman evidently represents a horrible new mutation of humankind. Totally without conscience or remorse, insensitive to pain, he may be a monster, but he is a monster nonetheless quite useful to military and espionage agencies. Released from a Russian prison after six years and three escape attempts, Newman is taken to a neuropsychiatric institute in Germany to be evaluated, perhaps treated, and perhaps released. As the German and American staff gradually realize the depths of the differences between him and """"normal"""" human beings, Newman escapes once more and begins to even the score. Steinberg's first novel cleverly raises some interesting issues about the warrior's ethos.""""
Synopsis
Richard Steinberg worked his way through college by age twenty. He founded his own international high-risk security firm at twenty-four. After recovering from a gunshot wound incurred in the line of duty, he now lectures on issues that include counterterrorism, international security matters, and the history of assassinations in America. The Gemini Man is his first novel. From the Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Cuyahoga Valley Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12787
- Title
- The Gemini Man.
- Author
- Richard Steinberg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385490518
- ISBN 13
- 9780385490511
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- April 1998
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