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Implant
Neurosurgeon Julia Nolan places cortical implants into the brains of field operatives to record data from their auditory and visual cortices. One of her subjects, an operative named Ian Westhelle, suffers a psychotic break and kills his handler before he can be recovered.Julia tracks Ian to an asylum where the CIA warehouses insane former soldiers, scientists, and others with security risks too great for conventional psychiatric wards. Agents from the national intelligence directorate discover her snooping and target her for elimination.A collaboration between award-winning writer Michael Wallace and international bestselling author Jeffrey Anderson, Implant is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep readers guessing until the final, chilling conclusion.
299 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 11, 2011
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Jeffrey Anderson
3 books5 followersJeffrey Anderson, MD PhD studied abstract mathematics and neuroscience at Northwestern University before completing residency and fellowship in neuroradiology at the University of Utah. Dr. Anderson is Director of Functional Imaging at the University of Utah, and runs the Brain Network Laboratory. He is author of 2 national bestselling science thrillers, and has unsuccessfully tried for years to explain to his four children why he doesn’t do something cool like crew for the Jonas Brothers.
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February 21, 2022
Ian Westhelle is a CIA agent and has agreed to receive an implant that is supposed to record data from his visual and auditory cortices. We all know engineers like to make changes sometimes just because they can. When 'upgrades' to the implant add new features things go wrong while Ian and his childhood best friend and fellow agent are undercover in Namibia. The two agents start to receive commands through the implants and are discovered. Things go from bad to worse as Ian and neurosurgeon Julia try to find the truth about what happened and just how high up the corruption extends while trying to stay alive. A very thrilling read.
June 16, 2018
Very good contemporary military thriller. There are characters to like, distrust and downright dislike. I recommend!
April 13, 2023
3.5 stars
March 12, 2014
This was part of a bundle called - 7 Deadly Thrills. I have greatly enjoyed each and every one.
In this book Julia Nolan is a neurosurgeon doing breaking edge research on implants of tiny microprocessors into the brains of volunteer soldiers. Her latest 2 she feels were deployed too soon. She hadn't really completed her analyses, and what is up with the computer geek who keeps hanging out in her lab. He claims he is trying new protocols on the animals she has experimented on, uploading newer software. She complains to her husband who is military and helped get her this research opportunity. She feels the government is not keeping her in the loop about software changes and she foresees problems if they aren't going to trust her.
Ian and his best buddy are deployed to Africa. They are her latest test subjects. They are supposed to infiltrate a Chinese camp and send info back to the U.S. Everything goes wrong, including the U.S. bombing the facility and taking out Ian's friend.
When Julia demands to see Ian and to find out what went wrong with the surgery and the chip, she learns he has lost his mind and is in a secure mental health facility. She is allowed to see him. He is being drugged. Julia ends up aiding Ian and the other inmates in an escape. She and Ian know they can only find out the answers if they return to Africa.
The U.S. government is after them. The computer chip is trying to make Ian do things he doesn't want to do. Julia does surgery and removes the battery, but it still has a charge left in it. Meanwhile there is a coup of the country's government. Various U.S. government agencies want Ian and Julia dead. When she reaches out to her husband for some help, he sabotages her and one arm of the U.S. finds them. But Markov has doubts about his superior and stops to listen to Ian and Julia. Markov picks sides. Ian and Julia stay in Africa to try to stabilize the government.
There are plots within plots. Several people are only out for personal gain. Others are true patriots. At a critical time Ian blacks out and Julia has to try to figure out why and then can she get the supplies she needs in Africa to save Ian. Will they survive their own governments plots to kill them. Will they survive the civil war going on in Africa? Who can they trust? Can they ever go home again? Or will they have to stay on the run?
A very complex novel that kept me reading and reading.
In this book Julia Nolan is a neurosurgeon doing breaking edge research on implants of tiny microprocessors into the brains of volunteer soldiers. Her latest 2 she feels were deployed too soon. She hadn't really completed her analyses, and what is up with the computer geek who keeps hanging out in her lab. He claims he is trying new protocols on the animals she has experimented on, uploading newer software. She complains to her husband who is military and helped get her this research opportunity. She feels the government is not keeping her in the loop about software changes and she foresees problems if they aren't going to trust her.
Ian and his best buddy are deployed to Africa. They are her latest test subjects. They are supposed to infiltrate a Chinese camp and send info back to the U.S. Everything goes wrong, including the U.S. bombing the facility and taking out Ian's friend.
When Julia demands to see Ian and to find out what went wrong with the surgery and the chip, she learns he has lost his mind and is in a secure mental health facility. She is allowed to see him. He is being drugged. Julia ends up aiding Ian and the other inmates in an escape. She and Ian know they can only find out the answers if they return to Africa.
The U.S. government is after them. The computer chip is trying to make Ian do things he doesn't want to do. Julia does surgery and removes the battery, but it still has a charge left in it. Meanwhile there is a coup of the country's government. Various U.S. government agencies want Ian and Julia dead. When she reaches out to her husband for some help, he sabotages her and one arm of the U.S. finds them. But Markov has doubts about his superior and stops to listen to Ian and Julia. Markov picks sides. Ian and Julia stay in Africa to try to stabilize the government.
There are plots within plots. Several people are only out for personal gain. Others are true patriots. At a critical time Ian blacks out and Julia has to try to figure out why and then can she get the supplies she needs in Africa to save Ian. Will they survive their own governments plots to kill them. Will they survive the civil war going on in Africa? Who can they trust? Can they ever go home again? Or will they have to stay on the run?
A very complex novel that kept me reading and reading.
May 22, 2011
Jeg har nettopp ferdiglest Sci-Fi eboka "Implant" av den for meg totalt ukjente forfatteren Michael Wallace. Interessant hva man tilfeldigvis kommer over, må jeg virkelig si! Jeg tror jammen jeg må føye boka inn i listen over det Bokelskerinnen kaller "Flyplass-thrillere" :-)
Litt om boka
Nevro-kirurgen Julia Nolan jobber for CIA og installerer databrikker i hjernen til feltoperatører for å kunne registrere data både fra det de ser og det de hører når de jobber "under cover". En av hennes pasienter, agenten Ian Westhelle, får et psykisk sammenbrudd, tar livet av kompanjongen sin og blir tatt til fange av dem han spionerer på.
Julia klarer å finne ham igjen på et asyl hvor CIA har plassert sinnsyke tidligere soldater, vitenskapsmenn og andre som krever mye høyere grad av sikkerhet enn vanlige psykiske anstalter. Hun vil finne årsaken til at Ian fikk sammenbrudd, og aner en mistanke om at implantatet som hun installerte også inneholder andre funksjoner enn hva hun i utgangspunktet var ledet til å tro. Har noen kontrollert Ian via implantatet? Er det noe mer enn lyd- og bildeopptaksmuligheter installert på brikken?
Wallace holder virkelig på spenningen i denne boka, og den er grundig og gjennomført god. Han har også med seg forfatteren Jeffrey Anderson som har både MD og PhD grad fra Northwestern University i nevrobiologi, og som har drevet utstrakt research på hjerner... Dette gir boka et utrolig solid fundament. Kan dette virkelig være mulig?
Historien utspiller seg i all hovedsak i Namibia, og jeg kjenner igjen flere av de mindre stedene Julia og Ian er innom. Dette gir meg en spesiell knytning til boka siden jeg faktisk har vært på flere av disse "utpostene" selv. De politiske utfordringene som også spiller en større rolle henimot slutten av boka er også troverdige, så her har det vært gjort grundig forarbeide.
Dette er en Sci-Fi bok som overrasket meg veldig positivt, til tross for at jeg følte jeg ble kastet inn i historien litt vel brått i starten. Jeg kommer til å lese mer av Michael Wallace. Kanskje også en bok av co-forfatteren Jeffrey Anderson, som har skrevet et par Sci-Fi bøker på egenhånd. Jeg liker bøker som bærer preg av grundig og solid forarbeide. Boka får 4 av 5 stjerner av meg.
Litt om boka
Nevro-kirurgen Julia Nolan jobber for CIA og installerer databrikker i hjernen til feltoperatører for å kunne registrere data både fra det de ser og det de hører når de jobber "under cover". En av hennes pasienter, agenten Ian Westhelle, får et psykisk sammenbrudd, tar livet av kompanjongen sin og blir tatt til fange av dem han spionerer på.
Julia klarer å finne ham igjen på et asyl hvor CIA har plassert sinnsyke tidligere soldater, vitenskapsmenn og andre som krever mye høyere grad av sikkerhet enn vanlige psykiske anstalter. Hun vil finne årsaken til at Ian fikk sammenbrudd, og aner en mistanke om at implantatet som hun installerte også inneholder andre funksjoner enn hva hun i utgangspunktet var ledet til å tro. Har noen kontrollert Ian via implantatet? Er det noe mer enn lyd- og bildeopptaksmuligheter installert på brikken?
Wallace holder virkelig på spenningen i denne boka, og den er grundig og gjennomført god. Han har også med seg forfatteren Jeffrey Anderson som har både MD og PhD grad fra Northwestern University i nevrobiologi, og som har drevet utstrakt research på hjerner... Dette gir boka et utrolig solid fundament. Kan dette virkelig være mulig?
Historien utspiller seg i all hovedsak i Namibia, og jeg kjenner igjen flere av de mindre stedene Julia og Ian er innom. Dette gir meg en spesiell knytning til boka siden jeg faktisk har vært på flere av disse "utpostene" selv. De politiske utfordringene som også spiller en større rolle henimot slutten av boka er også troverdige, så her har det vært gjort grundig forarbeide.
Dette er en Sci-Fi bok som overrasket meg veldig positivt, til tross for at jeg følte jeg ble kastet inn i historien litt vel brått i starten. Jeg kommer til å lese mer av Michael Wallace. Kanskje også en bok av co-forfatteren Jeffrey Anderson, som har skrevet et par Sci-Fi bøker på egenhånd. Jeg liker bøker som bærer preg av grundig og solid forarbeide. Boka får 4 av 5 stjerner av meg.
February 22, 2017
A good read
Was interesting. Not the greatest but definitely not the worse. I did want to finish and that is always a good sign.
Was interesting. Not the greatest but definitely not the worse. I did want to finish and that is always a good sign.
April 12, 2012
Two operatives from the CIA are fitted with cortical implants and sent on a mission to Namibia (in South West Africa). Once there however, the implants start to behave unexpectedly causing the operatives to be compromised. Soldiers in the camp are killed as is one of the operatives.
In a bid to determine what went wrong with the implants, Neurosurgeon Julia Nolan tracks down and visits the surviving operative in a special government asylum and this begins a process where her own life is at risk - and targetted for elimination.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, with its connections to South Africa and Namibia. I enjoyed the occasional Afrikaans ward or phrase the author threw into the mix. Some people will not know what the mean of course.
One or two typos as well but not excessive. Well worth the read.
In a bid to determine what went wrong with the implants, Neurosurgeon Julia Nolan tracks down and visits the surviving operative in a special government asylum and this begins a process where her own life is at risk - and targetted for elimination.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, with its connections to South Africa and Namibia. I enjoyed the occasional Afrikaans ward or phrase the author threw into the mix. Some people will not know what the mean of course.
One or two typos as well but not excessive. Well worth the read.
March 15, 2012
Another good read from the Kindle Free shelf. Government scheme to implant hardware/software in the brains of agents to record what they see and hear when on clandestine missions is used by a scheming head of the National Intelligence to insert commands to agents tasked to infiltrate a Chinese compound being built in Namibia. Their job was to discover what sort of forces the Chinese had and how the hired security force was equipped. One of the agents dies and the other is captured and the neurosurgeon who did the implants wants to find out what failed. She did not know of the extra commands being given to the agents. Plot and counter plot lead to stock market crashes and civil insurrection in Namibia and escape from a CIA storehouse for dangerous mental patients keep the action going.
October 10, 2012
Ian and another operative have implants placed in them by Dr. Julia, and then are sent on a mission to Namibia. Something goes wrong, and Ian ends up in secret govt. insane asylum (outside of Nephi, Utah). Julia rescues him and they are on the run. Meanwhile back in Namibia there is a coup about to happen. Julia and Ian return to Namibia, and end up in the center of everything, and back home in the US there is some stock market manipulation. A fun, fast read, lots of action, and I wish I understood more of the military terms. It did make we wonder how much of this stuff could be true!
August 3, 2012
Wow! At first I wasn't sure how I thought about this. It seemed to start slow, and I was close to regretting my choice to read it, but somewhere along the line it dragged me in and hooked me. Great plot line, and good character chemistry. Even though some parts were predicable, it was the good kind. Thoroughly enjoyed. Makes me want to meet a South African CIA operative.
August 28, 2013
I was hoping this would be a medical thriller, but it ended as what I consider more of a political thriller, in which the story line was too hard for me to follow. I wanted to hear more about the implant as the beginning of the book began with, but all the description of the combat at the end, I found tiring to read bout.
January 4, 2017
This was an interesting novel. Not my typical genre but well worth the read. I was looking through all my unread books and picked this one because I wanted a change. It is a well written spy, sci-fi , Wall Street book, enough romance to make you feel good and it had some really great fight scenes. Just what I needed for the mood I was in.
June 19, 2013
This could very well be New Zealand rather than Namibia, the oil fields, the backhand government agreements, the #GCSB.
It was predictable near the end, except for one event.
Recommend reading this book
It was predictable near the end, except for one event.
Recommend reading this book
July 1, 2014
Although this sounds like science fiction, I wouldn't be surprised if there might be experiments being done now on something like these implants. I thought this book was exciting and interesting. I'm going to look at some other books by Anderson.
August 31, 2014
At first I thought I would be reading a medical thriller, which I love. This was a thriller, but not as much medical as I am used to. I did get drawn into the book and needed to find out what was going to happen and the involvement of the various players.
March 13, 2011
Great techno-medical-spy thriller, lots of great on the edge of your seat scenes. Great likable characters very worthy of reading.
October 20, 2011
A lot different then what I have been reading, but I enjoyed this book. Good story, kept me interested. What next now? Not sure.
April 7, 2012
A good thriller wrote about a CIA agent. This book keeps you hopping and is a hard one to put down. It is a fast pace read.
June 16, 2012
Good plot, fast moving. I couldn't put it down. It's a great medical thriller!
October 18, 2012
Heroine with brains, a refreshing change! Action and plot twists kept it interesting.
January 17, 2013
Interesting concept.
February 10, 2013
The action was hot, but I would have liked more of the medical stuff. Overall I think this was pretty good. Needs editing.
March 3, 2013
This was a fun, light and easy read. I found it to be a real page turner! If you like a thriller but just need a bit of fluff to distract you, this is your book!
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August 7, 2014
Believable in that this is something being researched in the real world...not to this extent, but very well written, gripping, and worth the read.
September 2, 2014
An unusual storyline but a truly great read!
October 28, 2015
really enjoyed this book even though I normally avoid military types but it was good
August 8, 2011
Just couldn't get into this book. Nothing wrong with it, just wasn't my cup of tea.
January 19, 2016
That was great, enjoyed every minute of it. Very different setting to the usual.
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