The Augmented Man

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Pub Date 25 Jul 2019 | Archive Date 09 Oct 2019

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Sci-fi Military Thriller

What do you do with a deadly weapon when it's no longer needed?

Nicholas Trailer is the last of The Augmented Men, beings created first by society and completed by a political group the public can't even imagine exists. Captain James Donaldson takes severely abused and traumatized children and modifies them into monsters capable of the most horrifying deeds without feeling any remorse or regret.

But the horrors of war never stay on the battlefield. They always come home.

Battling what society and science has made him, Nick Trailer discovers he is loved. From the horrors of childhood to the horrors of a war, what does it take for someone to find true love and peace? Especially when everyone has their own agenda, from the senators who sanctioned his making to the Governor of Maine who wants to use Nick's struggle to propel himself to the White House.

The Augmented Men were good at war, perhaps a little too good. Now they have to come home...or do they? What do you do with man-made monsters? Nick must decide if his friends are his friends and if his enemies are his enemies, all while protecting the woman he loves.

And are you truly the last of your kind?

What if you must remain a monster to defeat a monster? Will you sacrifice love to protect what you love?


Sci-fi Military Thriller

What do you do with a deadly weapon when it's no longer needed?

Nicholas Trailer is the last of The Augmented Men, beings created first by society and completed by a political...


Advance Praise

"... a masterful tale of how greed and power can corrupt the better judgement of a man." -Rox Burkey, co-author of the award-winning Enigma Series

"Emotional and touching." -John R. Beyer, ex-SWAT, author of Black Opal Books Police Thrillers

"In the same vein as Orson Scott Card's, Ender's Game - Joseph Carrabis's newest novel, The Augmented Man, thrusts the reader into an unknown but realistic world of the future where governments create devastating war weapons of their choosing....This exciting story will make the reader truly question if such things as The Augmented Man could or does exist under the blackness of government secrecy. At the conclusion of the novel, the reader can only pray it is strictly fiction and not a harbinger of things to come in the near future." - John R. Beyer, award winning author of fictional short stories and novels

"Carrabis writes a masterful tale of how greed and power can corrupt the better judgement of a man. Although this story is set in the future, it actually seems plausible that the sorts of physiological and psychological modifications discussed and inflicted on some of the characters could and have occurred in the name of military dominance. It was fascinating to me how Carrabis compared the capability of Navy Seals as an example against the next gen efforts as well as the results." - Rox Burkey, CoAuthor of the award winning Enigma Series


"... a masterful tale of how greed and power can corrupt the better judgement of a man." -Rox Burkey, co-author of the award-winning Enigma Series

"Emotional and touching." -John R. Beyer, ex-SWAT...


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The Augmented Man follows a long tradition of supermen trained by the military or black ops to accomplish tasks. But, the Augmented Man takes it a few steps further where the men are somewhere between Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator than and Matt Damon in Jason Bourne. They are Augmented in their senses and damn near indestructible. But, to get them there where they can fulfill their missions - sometimes morally difficult missions - they had to start with psychologically dented beings who had survived childhoods of abuse and that is the word- survived. Do you bring back a rogue Augmented to the fold or find some way to destroy him? This book is half psych ops study and half black ops action. As such, it occupies new terrain, often distant terrain difficult to traverse.

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This has a good amount of action and tension and mostly held my attention. Military sci-fi is not my fave genre but this was good. Nice character creation and occasional tug on emotions. Recommended for sci-fi thriller fans.

I really appreciate the NetGalley copy for review!!

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