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Cold Sleep
This is a special boxed set, containing "When the Spy in Me Awakens" and "If I Should Spy Before I Wake", two historical Cold War thrillers:
"When the Spy in Me Awakens":
Inspired by a now-declassified United States government-funded research program to test psychic skills....What happened at Dr. Arcanum Lock's camp for child psychics back in 1965? What was the Evolutionary Spirit Project? Were they really taught to channel spirits, or was something else, something far more dangerous and sinister going on? What does it have to do with national security today?
Gillian Goodwin gets an SOS from old friend Jack, an aid relief worker headed to Somalia. He needs to figure out how he ended up on a Homeland Security watch list and get off it in time rescue famine victims before it's too late. But Jack's on someone's kill list. The only reason he's alive is because Gillian decided to follow him to that clandestine meeting....
While Jack is in the hospital's ICU, recovering from the attempt on his life, their mutual friend Val calls in a panic from Washington, DC. A vicious blackmailer is taunting the violinist with The New Hope Orchestra with the exposure if she doesn't do what she's told. Val is desperate to keep her husband from finding out the well-hidden secret she's kept for decades.
As she tries to help her friends, Gillian becomes a target herself. But why? What is so special about a children's author from Massachusetts? Maybe it has something to do with her husband, Geo, and the "Stand Down!" technology he's developing for the U. S. Navy.
"If I Should Spy Before I Wake":
Inspired by a now-declassified United States government-funded research program to test psychic skills....What is so special about student Maddy Walker in 1978 that makes the Inner Sanctum of Atlantis psychics so determined to recruit her? Is it a plot to use her in a government-sanctioned psychic spy research program or is it part of a 50-year Soviet plan in 1950 to penetrate the U.S. government? Are the psychics really able to read minds and move objects with their thoughts?
The answer chases Maddy, a budding psychologist, through the next 3 decades of classified secrets, deep cover ops, and spies. Introduced to the so-called psychics by her psychology professor, Dr. Ben Pynchon, expert on mystical transient death experiences, Maddy observes the psychological coercion used on dissenters and non-believers, and her concern only grows with time and exposure to the indoctrination efforts.
Pursued by a well-hidden Soviet spy network that targets Vietnam War vets and college students, Maddy is drawn into a world that doesn't play fair. Using psychological games, propaganda, and covert ops, the spy network works to achieve their goals of transforming the US government, and once caught in their web, Maddy finds her life forever changed. Now Maddy has to find a way to survive, even as the Inner Sanctum works hard to control every aspect of her life, in order to maximize their opportunities to gather defense secrets. No US government agency is safe from the long reach of the well-funded, well-connected spy network.
Leaving a trail of victims and dead bodies in their wake, they make progress, thanks to a cooperative Congressman and his staff. It won't be easy to contain the damage to national security. How far will the bad guys get before they're stopped?
"When the Spy in Me Awakens":
Inspired by a now-declassified United States government-funded research program to test psychic skills....What happened at Dr. Arcanum Lock's camp for child psychics back in 1965? What was the Evolutionary Spirit Project? Were they really taught to channel spirits, or was something else, something far more dangerous and sinister going on? What does it have to do with national security today?
Gillian Goodwin gets an SOS from old friend Jack, an aid relief worker headed to Somalia. He needs to figure out how he ended up on a Homeland Security watch list and get off it in time rescue famine victims before it's too late. But Jack's on someone's kill list. The only reason he's alive is because Gillian decided to follow him to that clandestine meeting....
While Jack is in the hospital's ICU, recovering from the attempt on his life, their mutual friend Val calls in a panic from Washington, DC. A vicious blackmailer is taunting the violinist with The New Hope Orchestra with the exposure if she doesn't do what she's told. Val is desperate to keep her husband from finding out the well-hidden secret she's kept for decades.
As she tries to help her friends, Gillian becomes a target herself. But why? What is so special about a children's author from Massachusetts? Maybe it has something to do with her husband, Geo, and the "Stand Down!" technology he's developing for the U. S. Navy.
"If I Should Spy Before I Wake":
Inspired by a now-declassified United States government-funded research program to test psychic skills....What is so special about student Maddy Walker in 1978 that makes the Inner Sanctum of Atlantis psychics so determined to recruit her? Is it a plot to use her in a government-sanctioned psychic spy research program or is it part of a 50-year Soviet plan in 1950 to penetrate the U.S. government? Are the psychics really able to read minds and move objects with their thoughts?
The answer chases Maddy, a budding psychologist, through the next 3 decades of classified secrets, deep cover ops, and spies. Introduced to the so-called psychics by her psychology professor, Dr. Ben Pynchon, expert on mystical transient death experiences, Maddy observes the psychological coercion used on dissenters and non-believers, and her concern only grows with time and exposure to the indoctrination efforts.
Pursued by a well-hidden Soviet spy network that targets Vietnam War vets and college students, Maddy is drawn into a world that doesn't play fair. Using psychological games, propaganda, and covert ops, the spy network works to achieve their goals of transforming the US government, and once caught in their web, Maddy finds her life forever changed. Now Maddy has to find a way to survive, even as the Inner Sanctum works hard to control every aspect of her life, in order to maximize their opportunities to gather defense secrets. No US government agency is safe from the long reach of the well-funded, well-connected spy network.
Leaving a trail of victims and dead bodies in their wake, they make progress, thanks to a cooperative Congressman and his staff. It won't be easy to contain the damage to national security. How far will the bad guys get before they're stopped?
328 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 13, 2017
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