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Summary: Disappointing story that's doomed by information overload
Review: First of all, let me state for the record that I generally love any and all of Robert Doherty's works. I've read all of the Area 51 books and found them to be imaginative and believable enough to appear to be somewhat based in fact.Sadly, I didn't find much to make "Psychic Warrior" a book I would recommend to Doherty's fans. While the style of writing was Doherty's usual clear and consise manner, "Psychic Warrior" was dragged down by TOO MUCH information and not enough story! Doherty decided to spend the bulk of his story decribing how the psychic warriors were chosen, trained, and deployed and not enough time developing the plot. Doherty did a good job researching and creating the concept (in this case, soldiers who can use their minds to wage war), but the plot borders too much on the fantastic. Here's hoping that the sequel to "Psychic Warrior" takes off early with a great plot and saves this series!
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Summary: Disappointing story that's doomed by information overload
Review: First of all, let me state for the record that I generally love any and all of Robert Doherty's works. I've read all of the Area 51 books and found them to be imaginative and believable enough to appear to be somewhat based in fact. Sadly, I didn't find much to make "Psychic Warrior" a book I would recommend to Doherty's fans. While the style of writing was Doherty's usual clear and consise manner, "Psychic Warrior" was dragged down by TOO MUCH information and not enough story! Doherty decided to spend the bulk of his story decribing how the psychic warriors were chosen, trained, and deployed and not enough time developing the plot. Doherty did a good job researching and creating the concept (in this case, soldiers who can use their minds to wage war), but the plot borders too much on the fantastic. Here's hoping that the sequel to "Psychic Warrior" takes off early with a great plot and saves this series!
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Summary: Rife with mistakes
Review: First, let's talk about the obvious mistakes in this book.
The author writes, page 79, about a burning cigarette producing a "bright red glow" in a night vision goggle. Another reviewer perpetuates this mistake by claiming that "many night vision goggles have an infrared setting, like the predator, which does show up as red and yellow and colors besides the monochrome green."
The fact is that the Predator, like any image enhancement night vision device, has a green monochrome viewing screen. Nothing shows up as red. Many IMAGE ENHANCEMENT devices, like the Predator, have infrared illuminators, which cast infrared light of .7 to 1.3 microns (invisible to our eyes), which is REFLECTED off subjects, picked up by the lens (along with ambient light), sent to the image-intensifier tube, and amplified for viewing on the monochrome screen.
There is a second, different, type of night vision device. THERMAL viewers reveal EMITTED (not reflected) thermal-IR radiation of 3 microns to 30 microns. Thermal viewer displays may be configured as either a multi-colored thermal image, or a one-color setting. (This is what you see from police helicopter viewers at night when the cars and suspects appear to "glow"). Thermal viewers are not the "goggles" Doherty is writing about.
Neither the Predator, nor any other image enhancement device, has a "setting" to view thermal radiation. An illuminator (infrared light source) used to increase reflected light is NOT a "setting" to view thermal radiation, any more than a flashlight is a thermometer. To view thermal radiation, a separate, dedicated, thermal radiation viewer is needed. Thermal viewers do not use illuminators since they reveal EMITTED light.
The linguistic coincidence that near infrared light is reflected to image enhancement viewers, and thermal-infrared light is emitted to thermal viewers, should not be confusing to either supposedly-experienced authors or deluded reviewers who claim that others "don't know anything."
Satellite phones don't, as the author claims on page 182, work indoors (except through a window). Author Doherty was not writing about the fanciful situation where the character had set up a "stationary unit" outside the building which relayed the satellite signal to the "portable headset." The character was dumbly, and impossibly, trying to get a direct satellite signal from inside a building.
Other mistakes in this hopeless book include, with reference to paperback page number, include --
* p. 59 - a secret military base would not be constructed where the only access is by military helicopters with "less than a foot" of rotor clearance.
* p. 60 - a CAT scan would (normally) not be used to see if there is brain activity.
* p. 74 - the Space Shuttle cannot service satellites (such as "Milstar 4") in geosynchronous orbit. Geosynchronous orbit is 22,223 miles up. The Space Shuttle's maximum possible altitude is 600 miles. See the difference?
I'm surprised that a book supposedly by an author with military experience would get so many positive reviews after being riddled with obvious mistakes, even _if_ you accept the virtual reality/ action part of the plot. Such obvious mistakes in the writing of a book scream out, "this author doesn't care to take the time to make the plot realistic."
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Summary: Want More of Psychic Warrior Books!
Review: I have really enjoyed reading this book and much as I have the Area 51 Series. Why aren't there more on the Psychic Warrior?
Please write more on this subject too!
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Summary: Action and science in a nice mix
Review: I'm not sure whether this book is a thriller or science fiction. Actually it's the best of both. Fast paced with some intriguing angles, especially the part about the bicameral mind. Some good info to think about. Read this if you like a fun story that moves quickly.
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Summary: Psychic Warrior
Review: In 1963, the Soviet 'Special Department-8' created the ultimate weapon- a 'phased displacement generator', connected to four psychic Nazi prisoners, turned into primitive cyborgs. Although used to sink the American submarine U.S.S. Thresher with a nuclear bomb, the cyborgs rebel, killing their masters. Thirty years later, the successor to SD8 has created a new type of psychic weapon, made from the remains of Spetsnatz Major Arkady Feteror. After being recovered from Afghanistan in 1986, they removed the brain/central nervous system from his heavily tortured body, linking him into a life-support system and an A.I. called 'Zivon'. Calling himself 'Chyort' (or 'Demon' in Russian), Feteror worked for the GRU, the military's version of the KGB. However, looking for a way to avenge himself, he now works with the Russian Mafia. With them, he has stolen twenty nuclear bombs, and, from the earlier SD8 experiment, the phased displacement generator, the computer programs to run it, and the only surviving scientist from SD8. Together, they plan to detonate the nuclear bombs in certain locations, to be decided by the highest bidder. In the U.S.A., the equivalent to SD8 is called 'Bright Gate'. Using information from the previous psychic program, 'Grill Flame', Bright Gate has created a method of projecting a warrior's psych into the 'virtual plane'. Called 'Psychic Warrior', the program is rushed into completion when word of Chyort's nuclear activities becomes known. With help of Sybyl (Zivon's Bright Gate counterpart), Raisor ( a CIA agent), Hammond (a Bright Gate scientist), and a score of psychic 'remote viewers', a team of Army Special Forces must venture into the psychic plane. The mission: stop Chyort's plan. At stake: the future of Mankind.
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Summary: Outstanding thriller
Review: Loved the action. Loved the concept. This book made me think a lot about what might have already been done in this field. The author says it's based on a real program-- how real I want to know?
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Summary: Psychic Warrior
Review: Psychic Warrior: Another GOOD book from Robert Doherty (a.k.a. Bob Mayer). Bob keeps true to his fast paced action packed stories. I have read all of his books and this is definitely one of his better ones with a very intriguing story line. With all of the hype of Remote Viewing these days and the 95% of the Original Stargate program still classified - it makes one wonder what the Government is REALLY capable of. After all, the Government pumps BILLIONS of dollars into programs like these every year. Anyway, I recommend all of Bob Mayers books under all of his Aliases; Joe Dalton, Bob McGuire, Greg Donegan, Robert Doherty and of course Bob Mayer.
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Summary: Excitin paanormal thriller
Review: Sergeant Major Jimmy Dalton has been with the military during the bad (Viet Nam War), the Good (Reagan and Bush I administrations), and the ugly (Carter). Over the years, he has fought heated battles and psychic wars. However, he has just faced his most difficult combat ever in the mountains of Colorado: saying goodbye to his now deceased beloved wife. Dalton realizes he has no time to really mourn because his country needs him once again. The psychic warrior learns he must battle on a virtual plane the deadly Priory. This group of psychics has combined forces with their goal being a world oligopoly controlled by them. Only Dalton and his team stand in their way, but his side has a mole ready to sell them out to the enemy. PSYCHIC WARRIOR: PROJECT AURA, the sequel to PSYCHIC WARRIOR, is an exciting military science fiction thriller that takes war onto a totally different plane. The story line is exciting as the virtual war heats up around the globe and governments are as criminal and cold as the cabal is. However, with the exception of Dalton and his memories of his wife, the rest of the cast, especially the Priory members, seems more like Manga cartoon characters so readers could not care less what happens to them. Fans who enjoy an in your face (mind) action packed thriller will welcome Robert Doherty's terrific tale. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Excitin paanormal thriller
Review: Sergeant Major Jimmy Dalton has been with the military during the bad (Viet Nam War), the Good (Reagan and Bush I administrations), and the ugly (Carter). Over the years, he has fought heated battles and psychic wars. However, he has just faced his most difficult combat ever in the mountains of Colorado: saying goodbye to his now deceased beloved wife. Dalton realizes he has no time to really mourn because his country needs him once again. The psychic warrior learns he must battle on a virtual plane the deadly Priory. This group of psychics has combined forces with their goal being a world oligopoly controlled by them. Only Dalton and his team stand in their way, but his side has a mole ready to sell them out to the enemy. PSYCHIC WARRIOR: PROJECT AURA, the sequel to PSYCHIC WARRIOR, is an exciting military science fiction thriller that takes war onto a totally different plane. The story line is exciting as the virtual war heats up around the globe and governments are as criminal and cold as the cabal is. However, with the exception of Dalton and his memories of his wife, the rest of the cast, especially the Priory members, seems more like Manga cartoon characters so readers could not care less what happens to them. Fans who enjoy an in your face (mind) action packed thriller will welcome Robert Doherty's terrific tale. Harriet Klausner
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