It's the first Saturday of summer vacation. But upcoming high school senior Logan Bradley can't celebrate -- he has to watch his younger brother Dylan while their mother attends her monthly book club meeting. She even forbids him from inviting his boyfriend Chad Adams over when she isn't home!
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โ Scribed by Algis Budrys
- Publisher
- Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
**Written at the height of the Cold War --and the resulting global paranoia--this futuristic novel raises provocative questions about identity, technology, and what makes us human **
East and West have fused into separate superstates known as the Allied National Government (ANG) and the Soviet International Bloc (SIB). As the Cold War rages, brilliant scientist Lucas Martino works on a top-secret project known only as K-Eighty-eight that could alter the balance of world power. The project goes horribly awry at an Allied research facility near the Soviet border, and Martino is abducted. After several months of tense negotiations, he returns severely injured from the lab explosion, and under pressure from America, undergoes extensive reconstructive surgery. He has a mechanical arm. His polished metal skull--a kind of craniofacial prosthesis--contains few discernable features. Several of his internal organs are artificial. While his fingerprints...
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