Implacable Alpha

Informationen zum Autor W. Michael Gear is the author of more than fifty published novels, many of which are co-authored with his beloved wife, Kathleen O'Neal Gear. He is a New York Times , USA Today , and international bestselling author whose work has been translated into 29 languages and has over 17 million copies in print worldwide. Both an anthropologist and archaeologist, he brings extraordinary depth and complexity to his characters and settings. Klappentext Now in paperback, New York Times bestselling author Gear continues the thrilling sci-fi mystery of Prisoner Alpha in book two of the Team Psi novels . Called the ‘Ennoia,’ the woman who came within a heartbeat of killing prisoner Alpha in the Grantham parking garage is back.   This time she’s snatched Dr. Timothy Ryan. The Psi Team find themselves caught in a battle that has been raging across timelines for 2000 years. But can they trust the Ennoia? Or is she using our timeline for her own purposes?   Meanwhile, Bill Stevens has his own agenda, and his goons have already crossed blades with Psi Team. Now they are coming for Alpha, and all the revenge they can get.   Because just as things seemed like they could get no worse, Alpha is back. And this time, she’s coming for blood. Leseprobe 1   Grazier   General Elijiah Grazier might have only had two stars on his shoulders, but--as he liked to say--he punched well above his rank. His elaborate master bathroom was proof of that. The walls gleamed with polished marble, had a full-length mirror bathed in lights and matching golden Kohler faucets on the sinks, deep tub, shower, and bidet. The two-story house in Georgetown-just minutes from downtown Washington, DC-didn't look that impressive from the outside, just red brick with white accents. As in all things, it was what lay within that mattered.   Eli padded across Venetian black-marble tiles and onto the thick carpeting in his walnut-paneled bedroom. Tugging back the blankets on his oversized king bed, he pulled his pajamas straight and checked to see that everything on his nightstand was in order: phone, light switch, flashlight, his glass of water, and the M92 Beretta. The intruder alert button was hidden from sight next to the bed and below the table's top.   Hell of a day. But that was Washington. For the time being he had Bill Stevens, the president's chief of staff, by the balls. And he was squeezing. To Eli's disgust, President Ben Masters was cautious enough to keep his pit bull in reserve. As much as Eli would have loved to have cut Stevens' throat and left him behind as roadkill, the president would have disapproved.   Stevens could be dealt with. That was just "Potomac politics."   Eli's pressing problem was Skientia, the cutting-edge research firm. A team in their New Mexico lab had developed a powerful technology that allowed them to project and analyze entangled particles from the past. Events out in the Los Alamos lab might have momentarily chopped the head off the serpent, but on this new battleground, Eli Grazier needed Skientia's science and engineering know-how more than ever. That meant he had to rely on Dr. Maxine Kaplan and her engineer, Virgil Wixom.   Eli trusted Kaplan as much as he'd have trusted a black mamba. Wixom remained an unknown.   "So, is Kaplan smart enough to take the reins?" he wondered as he slipped his feet beneath the covers and lay back to fluff his pillow.   But more to the point, could he control her?   He was reaching to turn off the light when the contralto voice said, "Please do not try anything foolish. And before you reach for your pistol, I can assure you that I took the liberty of unloading it. The intruder alert is disabled as well."   Eli froze as a green-eyed woman dressed in black tacti...

Product details

• Authors: W Michael Gear, W. Michael Gear
• Publisher: Daw
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2023
• EAN: 9780756418663
• ISBN: 978-0-7564-1866-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 209 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Team Psi
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy