Psychic Warrior - Paperback

by Bob Mayer (Author)

What if the deadliest weapon wasn't a missile-but a mind?

When the USS Thresher mysteriously explodes in the Atlantic in 1963, the official story blames mechanical failure. But deep beneath a frozen Arctic island, Soviet scientists celebrate a different truth: they've just tested the world's first psychic weapon. Using remote viewers-blind, brain-implanted prisoners locked in coffins-they've projected a nuclear warhead across thousands of miles through the virtual plane, destroying an American submarine without leaving Soviet waters.

Decades later, Sergeant Major Jimmy Dalton faces the darkest chapter of his thirty-year Special Forces career. His wife Marie lies in a coma, a victim of ALS and a devastating aneurysm. As he grapples with the decision to remove her life support, Dalton is pulled into the highly classified Bright Gate Project-where America's own psychic warriors fight battles on a plane of reality most people don't even know exists.

The virtual plane: a dimension where trained operatives can project their consciousness, gather intelligence, and strike targets with devastating precision. But someone has reactivated the Soviet program, and a rogue Russian psychic warrior named Feteror-his body surgically reduced to a mind enslaved to a supercomputer-threatens to unleash nuclear holocaust on the world.

As Dalton learns to navigate the strange physics of remote viewing and virtual projection, he discovers the terrible price of psychic warfare. The technology comes from experiments conducted on prisoners, from minds shattered and rebuilt for a single purpose. And the line between operator and weapon, between human and machine, grows thinner with each mission.

With his team dying around him and time running out, Dalton must venture into the virtual plane for a final confrontation with Feteror. But in this realm where consciousness is reality and thought becomes weapon, victory may require a sacrifice that transcends the physical world. And when Dalton encounters his wife's spirit during a mission, he faces an impossible choice between duty and love, between saving the world and holding on to the one person who gave his life meaning.

From Cold War secrets to cutting-edge military technology, from Special Forces operations to the physics of the human mind, PSYCHIC WARRIOR delivers a heart-pounding techno-thriller where the battlefield is consciousness itself. Perfect for fans of Tom Clancy, Dale Brown, and Michael Crichton, this is military fiction that asks: What happens when the ultimate weapon is the human soul?

Some wars are fought with bullets. Some with bombs. This one will be fought with minds.

Based on real Special Forces training programs and genuine Cold War psychic research, PSYCHIC WARRIOR explores the terrifying intersection of military technology, quantum physics, and the untapped power of the human mind.

Author Biography

NY Times bestselling author Bob Mayer has had over 50 books published. He has sold over four million books, and is in demand as a team-building, life-changing, and leadership speaker and consultant for his Who Dares Wins: The Green Beret Way concept. He is also the Co-Creator of Cool Gus Publishing. Bob Mayer grew up in the Bronx. After high school, he entered West Point where he learned about the history of our military and our country. During his four years at the Academy and later in the Infantry, Mayer questioned the idea of "mission over men." When he volunteered and passed selection for the Special Forces as a Green Beret, he felt more at ease where the men were more important than the mission. Mayer's obsession with mythology and his vast knowledge of the military and Special Forces, mixed with his strong desire to learn from history, is the foundation for his science fiction series Atlantis, Area 51 and Psychic Warrior. Mayer is a master at blending elements of truth into all of his thrillers, leaving the reader questioning what is real and what isn't. He took this same passion and created thrillers based in fact and riddled with possibilities. His unique background in the Special Forces gives the reader a sense of authenticity and creates a reality that makes the reader wonder where fact ends and fiction begins. In his historical fiction novels, Mayer blends actual events with fictional characters. He doesn't change history, but instead changes how history came into being. Mayer's military background, coupled with his deep desire to understand the past and how it affects our future, gives his writing a rich flavor not to be missed. Bob has presented for over a thousand organizations both in the United States and internationallys. He has taught organizations ranging from Maui Writers, to Whidbey Island Writers, to San Diego State University, to the University of Georgia, to the Romance Writers of America National Convention, to Boston SWAT, the CIA, Fortune-500, the Royal Danish Navy Frogman Corps, Microsoft, Rotary, IT Teams in Silicon Valley and many others. He has also served as a Visiting Writer for NILA MFA program in Creative Writing. He has done interviews for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Sports Illustrated, PBS, NPR, the Discovery Channel, the SyFy channel and local cable shows. For more information see http: //bobmayer.org and http: //coolgus.com