Unique Thriller!
Rating:
4 / 5
Hidden in an underground laboratory the military are conducting experiments on human beings. The military desire to enhance the human's brain capacity and intelligence. Computer chips are used as implants to facilitate this experiment. Unfortunately, the military-prisoners subjects chosen for the experiment are not as carefully thought out. They escape and wreak havoc along their way to global domination. However, one of their members dies and his corpse becomes hard evidence of their evil plot. That is as much as I should tell of the plot....I don't want to give too much away. This novel is similar in style and feel to the "X-Files" television series and yet in many ways far superior. Most of the characters are realistic and behave as real people would and the plot is very realistic. You get the feeling that this could have happened (well...sort of) and that's what makes it fun. The whole concept of "one person against a hidden society of criminal geniuses" is always exciting and full of action. A note on the author's style, I found Wilson to be short on description and visual cues. What you are left with is the plot, which is pretty darn good. Wilson writes this taut thriller very well and leaves it up to you to fill in the gaps. I know he couldn't have told us more about the people involved because some of them are the bad guys...Wilson wants us to figure out which side a person plays on. Overall a good story and fun to read.
another one from wilson
Rating:
4 / 5
once again charles wilson has written a suspensful technothriller. a bit of a slow starter, but once he gets going... the further i got into the book, the faster i was reading, and the more taunt wilson kept it. a good job.
another medical-scientific thriller from Wilson
Rating:
5 / 5
In 1990, in a secret underground military base in Montana, five criminals serving time in Leavenworth were used for an unusual and groundbreaking experiment: they had micro computer chips implanted in their brains. But the experiment backfires when the criminals use their now-enhanced mental powers to escape and begin a gradual take over of certain areas of life, including politics and law enforcement. Ten years later, one of the original recipients of a chip dies in a freak car accident in Jackson, Mississippi, and a pathologist inadvertantly removes the chip during the autopsy. Not wanting their diabolical plan to be discovered, the "chippees" (to borrow a term used above) will do anything to recover the chip, including murder. Dr. Spence Stevens, distraught over losing his friend and mentor, is convinced that something suspicious is behind the murder, and asks his old friend Joey to look into it. Joey, an emotionally disturbed military man now turned private detective, begins to unravel a plan so intricate and cleverly-disguised that he bumps into dead ends every time he thinks that he has a new clue. Finally he asks his friend FBI agent Bob Kennedy for help. After Joey loses his life in an "accident," Spence and Kennedy realize that whoever wants them out of the picture is playing for keeps. The twists and turns in the plot will keep you spellbound, and as the plot develops, more and more people become involved until you never know whom to trust. Should Spence trust the beautiful newspaper reporter Christen, his loyal assistant Flo, or even FBI agent Bob? You won't know who is a good "chippee" and who is a bad "chippee" until the very end! Charles Wilson is a master of the complicated plot and Game Plan is one of his best scientific thrillers yet.
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