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A Presidency under siege. A worldwide pandemic, followed by a global economic collapse. Is a happy ending even possible?
Does real life emulate fiction? Or, does fiction emulate real life?
All five books of the BrainTrust examine topics ripped from today's headlines: Pandemic, Global Economic Meltdown, Deportation. How closely will the world follow the BrainTrust script?
Warning: Political satire included in this near-future hard sf techno-thriller....
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Charlie was just doing his homework. But on the BrainTrust, homework can get you in a lot of hot water. How do you teach children to defend themselves from a cyberattack? On the BrainTrust, you first teach them how to launch a cyberattack. Inevitably, overachieving twelve-year-old Charlie Winston has gone and done it. He's a bright kid, and he's gonna get a really excellent grade for the shockingly sensitive, perfidious data he's collected. Perhaps...
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If the First Apocalypse Doesn't Kill Them All, Try Another. The most brilliant mind in a thousand years has been tortured and twisted by human cruelty. His solution: Burn the world down and start from scratch. Almost no one can stop him. A single obstacle stands in his way. He must destroy the Braintrust, and its medical researcher extraordinaire, Dr. Dash. With millions dying, nuclear war in the offing, and the Braintrust under siege, the fight for...
4) Requiem
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The World Economy Crashed and Burned. What's a BrainTrust To Do?
Having barely dodged an extinction level event, humanity now faces a new disaster: the world plunges into a Great Crash deeper and more cruel than the Depression of 1929. The BrainTrust has an answer. But the old, corrupt, dirtside Powers don't need an answer.
They need a scapegoat.
Soon an unholy alliance launches three mighty fleets, each individually powerful enough to destroy all...
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How Do You Know a Politician is Lying? His Lips Are Moving!
The President for Life has the Brawn; the young woman he must kidnap has the BrainTrust. Game On!
Many years ago, the President for Life expelled all the foreign engineers from Silicon Valley, promising those jobs for Americans. But his lips were moving. Instead, the Valley companies moved their people to a fleet of cruise liners off the coast, giving birth to the BrainTrust.
Now Dash,...
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If a rocketship dies, who wins? The world's most advanced rocket company suffers a catastrophic explosion that becomes a publicity disaster. Within hours, the new CEO Matt Toscano learns he faces much deeper trouble than a public relations problem- The California Governor plans to destroy him. Suddenly mankind's best hope of better space travel lies on the water, with the BrainTrust. Fortunately Dash Ambarawati, the BrainTrust's most brilliant researcher,...
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She's Invading the Cradle of Civilization Thousands of years ago, the northern plateau of China gave rise to the first great civilization. Now Jam, an ex-commando from the BrainTrust, is searching the plateau for the untapped geniuses needed to power the BrainTrust's expansion. She leads a two-woman invasion that could roil the power structure in China to its core. As Jam rides roughshod over tyranny, bureaucracy and ignorance, as she accumulates...
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