PROGENETER I Immortality: the Quest
Fiction & Literature, Action Suspense, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense
| Author: | Steve Bareham | ISBN: | 9780991680627 |
| Publisher: | Summa Publishing | Publication: | April 23, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Steve Bareham |
| ISBN: | 9780991680627 |
| Publisher: | Summa Publishing |
| Publication: | April 23, 2013 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Author's pledge to readers: "Fast paced, intelligently-crafted plot and well written, plus color photos to bring characters and action to life -- an eBook that offers good value!"
The reclusive order of Mayan monks protected the crystal skull for 5,000 years, but in 2013, its secret is out, and the price of failure may be billions of lives. Action, adventure, romance, danger, and real-life issues abound in this book that asks: What would you do to live for 250 years? Most would spend every cent they have, others would kill. Tripled lifespans sound fantastic, but being virtually immortal would doom an already overpopulated planet: 10 billion people by 2050 says the UN. This is what the tiny tribe of Mayans living in the Grand Canyon have to stop.
PROGENETER Immortality: the Quest, and the second eBook in the series, PROGENETER II: Immortality Endgame, comprise an action-packed 700-page suspense saga that spans centuries from Mayans who escaped the expedition of a Spanish conquistador to current day. Learning that the tribe, and the life-lengthening blood potion cannot be bought, the CEO of a multi-national drug company sends mercenaries to take it by force. The chase is on from the Grand Canyon, to Phoenix, and into the wilds of British Columbia. A creatively crafted, violent showdown is unavoidable as modern tactics and weaponry pits against millennia old martial arts and ingenious tactics.
Central characters are Mekel Mak'ina, leader of the mysterious Mavas u Ch'an and guardian of a secret intended to help humans but that now threatens humankind. And Dr. Helen Murray, the researcher sent to persuade the Mayans to share the immortality miracle. She comes to discover, but she finds more than she could ever have imagined...including the charasmatic Mekel!
PROGENETER is a rare read. In 40 years, humans may face the most significant challenge ever, yet no one seems to know. BONUS: brilliant color photos bring visual life to the plot. Exerpts:
Excerpt: There are few damnable acts uncommitted by man; in dark psyches, evil lurks like cursed mummies in their crypts.
Ek Chuah felt, as much as saw, the door to tenement apartment 3B tear off its hinges. And just before his eardrums popped, he was sure he heard glass shattering around him--the sound of five men, each entering a window of the apartment in perfect unison.
The concussion from the stun grenade turned off the synapses between his brain and his muscles. He didn't rise an inch from his chair before iron hands pinned his arms behind his back. Other hands slapped a patch of duct tape over his mouth, and a black hood was pulled over his head. Within 45 seconds, Ek Chuah was down three flights of stairs and tossed into the open door of a dark green Suburban.
The snatch had been dead easy, and could likely have been handled with half the manpower, but Peter Jenkins was not a man to take unnecessary risks. He could find no record of anyone named Ek Chuah. This, in itself, was enough to make him extra cautious, so he sure wasn't going to make assumptions about the snatch or the man's training.
He could just be some dumb guy who had put himself in harm's way, or he could be a gung-ho mercenary from some Arab country using an alias and with his hand on a gun taped under the table.
Author's pledge to readers: "Fast paced, intelligently-crafted plot and well written, plus color photos to bring characters and action to life -- an eBook that offers good value!"
The reclusive order of Mayan monks protected the crystal skull for 5,000 years, but in 2013, its secret is out, and the price of failure may be billions of lives. Action, adventure, romance, danger, and real-life issues abound in this book that asks: What would you do to live for 250 years? Most would spend every cent they have, others would kill. Tripled lifespans sound fantastic, but being virtually immortal would doom an already overpopulated planet: 10 billion people by 2050 says the UN. This is what the tiny tribe of Mayans living in the Grand Canyon have to stop.
PROGENETER Immortality: the Quest, and the second eBook in the series, PROGENETER II: Immortality Endgame, comprise an action-packed 700-page suspense saga that spans centuries from Mayans who escaped the expedition of a Spanish conquistador to current day. Learning that the tribe, and the life-lengthening blood potion cannot be bought, the CEO of a multi-national drug company sends mercenaries to take it by force. The chase is on from the Grand Canyon, to Phoenix, and into the wilds of British Columbia. A creatively crafted, violent showdown is unavoidable as modern tactics and weaponry pits against millennia old martial arts and ingenious tactics.
Central characters are Mekel Mak'ina, leader of the mysterious Mavas u Ch'an and guardian of a secret intended to help humans but that now threatens humankind. And Dr. Helen Murray, the researcher sent to persuade the Mayans to share the immortality miracle. She comes to discover, but she finds more than she could ever have imagined...including the charasmatic Mekel!
PROGENETER is a rare read. In 40 years, humans may face the most significant challenge ever, yet no one seems to know. BONUS: brilliant color photos bring visual life to the plot. Exerpts:
Excerpt: There are few damnable acts uncommitted by man; in dark psyches, evil lurks like cursed mummies in their crypts.
Ek Chuah felt, as much as saw, the door to tenement apartment 3B tear off its hinges. And just before his eardrums popped, he was sure he heard glass shattering around him--the sound of five men, each entering a window of the apartment in perfect unison.
The concussion from the stun grenade turned off the synapses between his brain and his muscles. He didn't rise an inch from his chair before iron hands pinned his arms behind his back. Other hands slapped a patch of duct tape over his mouth, and a black hood was pulled over his head. Within 45 seconds, Ek Chuah was down three flights of stairs and tossed into the open door of a dark green Suburban.
The snatch had been dead easy, and could likely have been handled with half the manpower, but Peter Jenkins was not a man to take unnecessary risks. He could find no record of anyone named Ek Chuah. This, in itself, was enough to make him extra cautious, so he sure wasn't going to make assumptions about the snatch or the man's training.
He could just be some dumb guy who had put himself in harm's way, or he could be a gung-ho mercenary from some Arab country using an alias and with his hand on a gun taped under the table.
