A work of intriguing science fiction interlaced with conspiracy, suspense, speculation, and humor.
While in an altered state of consciousness, a young CIA employee tells a terrifying story that’s hard for his interrogators to believe, even though the infallible machines connected to his head and torso indicate that he has to be telling the truth.
Reuben Garrett thinks he knows all there is to know about UFOs. After all, he's a senior operations officer for an ultra-secret government project that studies UFOs and alien abductions. What else could there be? Garrett discovers there’s more to the UFO phenomenon than he has been lead to believe when he crosses paths with Dave Reed, an employee of the CIA's Message Watch Office.
Dave is working the Saturday midnight shift in the Message Watch Office when a misdirected top-secret message arrives from NORAD–a fortified US Air Force command that conducts its operations inside a mountain. The enigmatic message rekindles Dave’s interest in UFOs. On a lark, he and a coworker set out to a small town where a hillbilly playboy named Tater and several other residents have seen mysterious lights in the sky, and people have disappeared under unusual circumstances. Falsely accused of espionage following a bizarre string of events, Dave is subjected to a high-tech interrogation technique involving hypnotic regression.
Please, folks. "Modify Destiny" is a work of "fiction". It is not the author's intent to prove or disprove anything about the UFO phenomenon. Few people believe in vampires either, but there are tons of books about vampires on the market.
I like non-dystopian science fiction. I really believe that's the way the future is going, especially if we make intelligent decisions as we shape it.
But I don't like UFOs. They are just that, identified objects in the sky. A high school friend whose career in the Air Force involved surveillance of land, sea, air and space through all surveillance devices, combined, has assured me that most of the incidents that hit the papers were well known by the team that he managed and provided to the military and the White House. He told me that there were no mysterious lights in the sky that were not explained either by man-made or natural phenomenon.
As far as human experiences go, We all know that eyewitness accounts are often wrong and the result of fear, insanity or great imagination. But there's a lot of fodder for weird novels good luck with yours.
Pieces of Eight, Part III is a collection of eight novellas to complement the eight in Pieces of Eight, Pieces of Eight, Part II and Pieces of Eight, Part IV.
