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The Eldridge Conspiracy
Jim Munroe's life is a bleak processional toward retirement. Wife and daughter long dead, he's a contractor at the Pentagon, winnowing sheaves of ancient personnel data in support of SLIF, a futuristic information system whose existence is seemingly as meaningless as his own. The sudden engagement of his best friend Lt. Commander Angie Milano to a toad of a brother officer leaves Jim with the bleak realization that he's been a fool.
In a few hours all changes. Friends murdered, Jim and Angie are on the run from a fifty-year old conspiracy, trailed by mayhem and entrusted by a dead hand with the only possible copy of the long-lost Eldridge roster--the names of those who manned the destroyer USS Eldridge during World War II's first ship invisibility experiment--the Philadelphia Experiment. SLIF recreated the roster and SLIF's owners must have it. Without it, Project Telemachus, perversion of a wondrous meld of genomics and physics, will fail. Without it, the descendants of the Eldridge's crew will remain safely anonymous unless outted by their own wild but unrealized paranormal powers--their Potential. (93,000 words.)
Jim and Angie quickly realize they can't rebottle the genie that is the Roster. And learn that Jim's daughter Keiko isn't dead but was taken and raised as his own by Telemachus' diabolical architect, Dr. Richard Schmidla. Taken, raised and exploited for her awesome Potential. Telemachus' success will mark Schmidla's triumph--the triumph of the genocidal ideology that's so long sustained him in his quest to craft a perfect humanity. If her father's one chance to rescue her fails, Keiko becomes the unwitting catalyst of Telemachus' success and humanity's brief but anguished twilight.
In a few hours all changes. Friends murdered, Jim and Angie are on the run from a fifty-year old conspiracy, trailed by mayhem and entrusted by a dead hand with the only possible copy of the long-lost Eldridge roster--the names of those who manned the destroyer USS Eldridge during World War II's first ship invisibility experiment--the Philadelphia Experiment. SLIF recreated the roster and SLIF's owners must have it. Without it, Project Telemachus, perversion of a wondrous meld of genomics and physics, will fail. Without it, the descendants of the Eldridge's crew will remain safely anonymous unless outted by their own wild but unrealized paranormal powers--their Potential. (93,000 words.)
Jim and Angie quickly realize they can't rebottle the genie that is the Roster. And learn that Jim's daughter Keiko isn't dead but was taken and raised as his own by Telemachus' diabolical architect, Dr. Richard Schmidla. Taken, raised and exploited for her awesome Potential. Telemachus' success will mark Schmidla's triumph--the triumph of the genocidal ideology that's so long sustained him in his quest to craft a perfect humanity. If her father's one chance to rescue her fails, Keiko becomes the unwitting catalyst of Telemachus' success and humanity's brief but anguished twilight.
305 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 9, 2010
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December 7, 2013
Finished reading this yesterday and really enjoyed it. An interesting cast of characters and a plot that makes you wonder just how far the government would go and not let the rest of us know what's going on. Definitely a book I would read again.
July 2, 2017
Good book; needs further editing, but the storyline was good. I rate it 4.5 stars.
August 13, 2014
1943: The destroyer USS Eldridge vanishes during the Philadelphia Experiment. The ship invisibility project ends.
Nuremberg, 1946: Nazi death camp doctor Martin von Kemnitz is hanged.
The Pentagon, 1999: A dying hand gifts Angie Milano and Jim Munroe with the deadly legacy that is the Eldridge Roster, the long-lost crew list of the Philadelphia Experiment. The two are soon on the run from the vicious killers sent for the roster. Without it, Project Telemachus, perversion of a wondrous meld of genetics and physics, will fail. And mankind may survive.
As the conspiracy unfolds, Jim and Angie go on the attack, gathering strength from each other as they battle Telemachus and the undying evil at its heart. Old foes of Telemachus, allies with very Different skills, join them. But only by together mastering the secret torments of their pasts can Jim and Angie defeat the Project and crush the dream of its brilliant, diabolical architect.
All allegiances unmasked, all powers unleashed, battle is joined as Project Telemachus launches its final experiment, its success signaling humanity's brief but anguished twilight.
Nuremberg, 1946: Nazi death camp doctor Martin von Kemnitz is hanged.
The Pentagon, 1999: A dying hand gifts Angie Milano and Jim Munroe with the deadly legacy that is the Eldridge Roster, the long-lost crew list of the Philadelphia Experiment. The two are soon on the run from the vicious killers sent for the roster. Without it, Project Telemachus, perversion of a wondrous meld of genetics and physics, will fail. And mankind may survive.
As the conspiracy unfolds, Jim and Angie go on the attack, gathering strength from each other as they battle Telemachus and the undying evil at its heart. Old foes of Telemachus, allies with very Different skills, join them. But only by together mastering the secret torments of their pasts can Jim and Angie defeat the Project and crush the dream of its brilliant, diabolical architect.
All allegiances unmasked, all powers unleashed, battle is joined as Project Telemachus launches its final experiment, its success signaling humanity's brief but anguished twilight.
December 9, 2012
Well written story of what possibly could have happened after the Philadelphia experiment to the succeeding generations. There are quite a few twists and turns in the story and it seems at the end that there is room for a follow-on novel. The characters are well thought out. The only problem I had with the Kindle version is since I was reading it on my phone with the Kindle App there was maybe 1/4th of a page displayed each time since the font was so large. I reduced it as much as possible and it was still very large.
August 14, 2012
Thought it was pretty good. The Eldridge story is on of my all time favorites--this is why I started on this book. Found it a little distracting when there were no quotes at the end of a character speaking in many places. I am no grammar expert, but it didn't seem right. And in the epilogue... who is Cassandra? I must have glossed over that detail somewhere in the main part of the book.
June 6, 2012
Fast paced and exciting, it was a very enjoyable read. It never disappointed me. I will definitely read some of the authors other books in the very near future.
June 27, 2015
No bad.
September 2, 2012
Kind of a scattered story with many annoying grammatical errors that any editor worth their salt should have caught.
October 12, 2012
fast paced suspensful mystery/sci fi but the ending is somewhat lacking.
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