The Gemini Man
A Novel
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Publisher Description
He was trained to be our deadliest weapon. Now he's our worst nightmare....
A noted expert on counterterrorism and international security, Richard Steinberg has used his firsthand knowledge of covert military strategies to craft the year's most daring tale of espionage and political intrigue. Dazzling and unforgettable, this power-packed tour de force is one part Robert Ludlum, two parts Thomas Harris--and 100% pure terror....
Code-named Gemini, he is conditioned to do just two things: breathe and kill.
His deadliest mission brought the Soviet Union to its knees. His reward: six years in a freezing Russian gulag--drugged, tortured, and abandoned.
Now a brilliant psychiatrist is charged with unlocking his sinister secrets. She will peer into the most fascinating and malevolent mind she has ever encountered.
And she will discover what Gemini already knows--that the most unstoppable enemies are the ones we create ourselves....
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. Simultaneous BDD audio.
