C.S. GRAHAM is the pseudonym of writing team Steven Harris
and Candice Proctor. Steven Harris has worked in Intelligence and was involved
with the remote viewing project. Candice Proctor has written mysteries under
the name of C S Harris. (I have yet to read these Sebastian St. Cyr mystery
series).
This novel’s central figure is a young lady who has the gift
of remote viewing. I think that the plot is a wonderful and plausible
conspiracy theory. A researcher working on remote viewing is using the young
lady as a subject for his study. In order to gain funding to continue his
research, he sends out a number of application letters with example of the
subject’s ability. One such application sends an organisation into a panic. The
drawing is that of an old World War II plane and the organisation is one of the
largest companies with its fingers in vast number of industries, from construction
to defence to oil. The CEO directs her underling to find out how many people
were aware of this drawing and where it was supposed to be. Why is this drawing
so important that within 48 hours the people who know about it might learn the
secret? The drawing of the remote viewing makes them go after the researcher to
find out who is the remote viewer. The lady in question, Tobie, is ex-military and
undertaking a degree while earning a small amount being the research subject.
She is also undergoing therapy for PTSD. She has been injured in Iraq as a
consequence of her abilities and had been discharged from the military due to
medical problems. The research is killed and his lab set on fire. The remote
viewer is now running for her life as the men get to her house and attack her.
A small department of the CIA gets alerted and send an agent
to investigate the death of the researcher, for at one time he had been doing this
remote viewing research for the military. This agent eventually catches up with
Tobie but he finds it hard to believe in remote viewing. To get to the bottom
of this mystery and find out who is involved they need to work out what drawing
of Tobie’s sparked this man hunt. The men who came after Tobie identified
themselves as FBI but surely they would not be the killers. Anyone who is her friend
is being observed. She is being tracked via her mobile phone and her car
sightings on CCTV. Once they identify which organisation is out to kill her,
they have to work out what is the mystery behind that WWII plane. Who all are
involved? Is this conspiracy going right to the top? Will Tobie with help of Jax
from CIA be able to remain alive and ahead of the assassins? Will they be able
to thwart the plot that would have extensive political and economic
implications?
A very well woven plot and the authors take time to explain
the background of all the characters as they bring them together. It is
frightening to think that something like this could exist or could it not? Am
sure some of the theories of the conspiracy are much more farfetched than this!
The pace is kept up and so it is hard to put the book down once started.
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