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Controller: Controller Trilogy, Book 1
Mind Control:
Once the mutation was recognized, nations raced to identify citizens that carried active copies of the two gene versions, spurring research to insert the genes in more of their populations. One in 10 million has either the aggressive or defensive gene version. Compeller or Immune.
Compellers insert thoughts in the minds of Susceptibles if within 75 feet. Those people act on those thoughts as if they were theirs, and will do what they are commanded to do. Like soldiers and law officers, some Compellers defend their government leaders, others attack leaders of hostile governments.
Immunes are not controllable, and sense thoughts sent to anyone nearby. They are the defenders of a nation’s leaders and seek out the foes of their government.
Sheldon Stiles is a powerful Controller, the first discovered, a man with two copies of the compel gene, and he’s a psychopath. He can make anyone do anything, from robbery, murder, or suicide, and he wants money and power. One Immune stands in his way.
Dan Grayson is the first double Immune, and he can sense Compeller thought transmissions and knows who sent them and precisely where they are. He’s part of an agency defending US leaders from mind control, but Stiles is out to kill him, his family, and friends. It’s personal and deadly.
Amid their personal conflict, technology suddenly tips the scale from short-range mental warfare, with the development of amplifiers and transmitters. These allow mass Mind Control of populations of entire cities. Stiles steals the technology, and Grayson is out to stop him. No nation is safe if their leaders or military can be forced to launch nuclear missiles, or armies of their citizen puppets riot, attacking the police and army, who then also join the chaos. The battle has gone global.
Free will belongs to those that can take yours from you.
Once the mutation was recognized, nations raced to identify citizens that carried active copies of the two gene versions, spurring research to insert the genes in more of their populations. One in 10 million has either the aggressive or defensive gene version. Compeller or Immune.
Compellers insert thoughts in the minds of Susceptibles if within 75 feet. Those people act on those thoughts as if they were theirs, and will do what they are commanded to do. Like soldiers and law officers, some Compellers defend their government leaders, others attack leaders of hostile governments.
Immunes are not controllable, and sense thoughts sent to anyone nearby. They are the defenders of a nation’s leaders and seek out the foes of their government.
Sheldon Stiles is a powerful Controller, the first discovered, a man with two copies of the compel gene, and he’s a psychopath. He can make anyone do anything, from robbery, murder, or suicide, and he wants money and power. One Immune stands in his way.
Dan Grayson is the first double Immune, and he can sense Compeller thought transmissions and knows who sent them and precisely where they are. He’s part of an agency defending US leaders from mind control, but Stiles is out to kill him, his family, and friends. It’s personal and deadly.
Amid their personal conflict, technology suddenly tips the scale from short-range mental warfare, with the development of amplifiers and transmitters. These allow mass Mind Control of populations of entire cities. Stiles steals the technology, and Grayson is out to stop him. No nation is safe if their leaders or military can be forced to launch nuclear missiles, or armies of their citizen puppets riot, attacking the police and army, who then also join the chaos. The battle has gone global.
Free will belongs to those that can take yours from you.
357 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 16, 2017
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About the author
Stephen W. Bennett
11 books272 followersI was born in 1942, so I'm an autumn rather than a spring chicken. I live outside of Tampa, Florida with my fabulous wife Anita, and one son in college, Montana. I have three older boys, Mark, Gary, and Anthony, all of whom have married and presented us with terrific grandchildren.
My education gravitated to science, starting out as a physics major and my depression era folks told me I'd never make a living as a theoretical physicist (probably right, and Cosmology wasn't a career field then), so I moved to Electronics Engineering. I devoted (was drafted into) service for the US Army, and caring not a whit for my electronics background, they offered this draftee a job as an Air Traffic Controller. Cool new career field. Retired, I now work as a consultant for the FAA, supporting software I helped create.
I decided to try my hand at writing what I loved to read, Science Fiction. The Koban Series has established my unusually successful entry into SciFi as an indie author. 11 books at last count, and at least two more in my mind.
My education gravitated to science, starting out as a physics major and my depression era folks told me I'd never make a living as a theoretical physicist (probably right, and Cosmology wasn't a career field then), so I moved to Electronics Engineering. I devoted (was drafted into) service for the US Army, and caring not a whit for my electronics background, they offered this draftee a job as an Air Traffic Controller. Cool new career field. Retired, I now work as a consultant for the FAA, supporting software I helped create.
I decided to try my hand at writing what I loved to read, Science Fiction. The Koban Series has established my unusually successful entry into SciFi as an indie author. 11 books at last count, and at least two more in my mind.
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July 26, 2018
Cool story
I enjoyed the story. I agree with another review that there could be some additional editing and culling of unnecessary repetition. The thinly veiled contempt for President Trump was off-putting, and again unnecessary. You'll also want to brush up on your weapons, as Glock handguns do not have a safety that can be engaged as Grayson did when first meeting the BII agents. Great thought provoking concept, and a fun read.
I enjoyed the story. I agree with another review that there could be some additional editing and culling of unnecessary repetition. The thinly veiled contempt for President Trump was off-putting, and again unnecessary. You'll also want to brush up on your weapons, as Glock handguns do not have a safety that can be engaged as Grayson did when first meeting the BII agents. Great thought provoking concept, and a fun read.
March 4, 2020
Mixed feelings
This is not a story that is intended to leave the reader with warm fuzzies. It is a horrifying story about how a single mutation could destroy civilization as we know it. It nevertheless deserves a reading if only to prepare oneself for such a scenario.
This is not a story that is intended to leave the reader with warm fuzzies. It is a horrifying story about how a single mutation could destroy civilization as we know it. It nevertheless deserves a reading if only to prepare oneself for such a scenario.
December 20, 2017
This is book 1 of my new Controller Trilogy.
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