The Millennium Project
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By Joseph Massucci
The
Millennium
Project
QUANTUM REBOOT
Techno Thriller
In this many-level story, Russian hacking of our strategic defense satellite network is a mask for a much more insidious plan for boundless fortune and power.
Great characters abound: a very evil genius, a three-person highly trained special forces strike team, top computer and biotech scientists, and Anthony, a state-of-the-art quantum computer.
Despite some truly grotesque concepts that still haunt me, this is a captivating adventure, beautifully wrought with real characters involved in a fascinating struggle to the death to save themselves, their friends, and the country. A fast and consuming read.
—Amazon.com Review
All Titles
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Millennium Project:
Quantum Reboot
Russian hacking of the U.S. strategic defense satellite network is a mask for a much more insidious plan for boundless fortune and power.
The Resurrection of
Andrew Finsbury
Caught between the world of the living and the dead, Andrew races to save his soul and the life of the woman he loves. And if he fails, the world will be forever changed.
AMAN
Four strangers become inextricably bound when they put their lives on the line to help a mysterious old man complete a harrowing journey to avert mankind’s extinction. A metaphysical thriller.
GORGON
When Gorgon targets the U.S. with a deadly AI-engineered neurotoxin, a desperate president orders all military resources directed at the virus’ destruction – even a thermonuclear hell.
Fast, Furious and So Fine!
Massucci has given us a fascinating look at the possible downfall of western civilization should an evil cyber-genius have his way. In this many-level story, Russian hacking of our strategic defense satellite network is a mask for a much more insidious plan for boundless fortune and power.
Great characters abound: a very evil genius, a three-person highly trained special forces strike team, top computer and biotech scientists, and Anthony, a state-of-the-art quantum computer.
Despite some truly grotesque concepts that still haunt me, this is a captivating adventure, beautifully wrought with real characters involved in a fascinating struggle to the death to save themselves, their friends, and the country. A fast and consuming read.
—Amazon.com Review
Filled with vivid air disasters, high-tech intrigue and a roller-coaster race against an immutable deadline, The Millennium Project is a smart action-thriller, sure to please readers of Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, Clive Cussler, and Ken Follett.
—Kirkus Reviews
“Fantastic … and terrifying”
—Publishers Weekly
THE CLOCK IS TICKING!
Filled with vivid air disasters, high-tech intrigue and a roller-coaster race against an immutable deadline, The Millennium Project is a smart action-thriller, sure to please readers of Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, Clive Cussler, and Ken Follett.
—Kirkus Reviews
“Fantastic … and terrifying”
—Publishers Weekly
“Written in the technothriller genre of Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy, Joseph Massucci does an excellent job in combining New- Age literature with an action thriller.”
– Ron Callari, Editor, y-two-k.com
“This technothriller exploits hacking fears and, unlike other novels of its genre, takes readers on a ride made even more compelling by the idea that it’s events could really happen… This is a good read, with plenty of bang for your Millennium buck.”
– Kevin Rittner, The Herald Tribune
“The result of Massucci’s blending imagination with the potentially devastating computer crisis is the industry’s best millennium thriller.”
– Howard Miller, Huntsville Times
An Interview with Joseph Massucci
DOES THE MILLENNIUM PROJECT PICK UP WHERE GORGON LEFT OFF?
MASSUCCI: The Millennium Project is not a sequel, per se; it’s a different scenario with the same characters set a year later. The story begins four days before the new year. GORGON’s Julie Martinelli is unexpectedly and suddenly drafted by a special branch of the US Military to work on a highly classified project and sealed away with several of her colleagues deep inside Cheyenne Mountain, the military’s high-tech NORAD bunker.
There she learns that the microprocessors controlling America’s top-secret strategic defense satellite network have failed, rendering the network useless. Julie’s job is to find a solution before our enemies discover we’re vulnerable to attack. Meanwhile, a mad genius and his small army of doomsday mercenaries are using this window of opportunity to commit the crime of the millennium.
THE HEROES OF BOTH BOOKS ARE JULIE MARTINELLI — A SMART, BEAUTIFUL BIOCHEMIST WORKING IN A GOVERNMENT LAB — AND COLONEL JOSEPH MARSHALL, A SEASONED SPECIAL FORCES COMMANDO. HOW DID YOU CREATE THESE CHARACTERS?
MASSUCCI: Julie and Marshall are purposely larger than life. After all, those two novels are escapist reads, so I needed to go beyond the normal, everyday types. Marshall and his Gunnery Sergeant Williams are extraordinary soldiers caught in very dangerous situations. In GORGON, for example, they’re forced to fight a biological weapon, an enemy they can’t see. Julie, on the other hand, is more “normal,” but undeniably gifted. It’s fun watching her get swept up in extraordinary situations she really doesn’t want any part of.
WHAT WAS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE WRITING THE MILLENNIUM PROJECT?
MASSUCCI: Trying to make reading about computers exciting. I use computers as the means to give our bad guy, Russian hacker Alexander Skile, a way to perpetuate his crimes. To create action, I introduce other elements and scenarios that lend themselves to adventure and suspense.
SUCH AS?
MASSUCCI: Well, for starters, the story opens with the crash of a commercial airliner on its final approach to Dulles International Airport. The pilots lose control when the aircraft’s 140 computers mysteriously begin shutting down. Other scenarios include surviving a helicopter crash atop the Colorado Rockies; thwarting a hijacking of a military train; recovering a top-secret satellite from a murky mountain lake bed; having the air slowly sucked out of NORAD’s bunker city; a shoot-out at a crowded Chicago Mercantile Exchange; the collapse of one of Chicago’s water tunnels; a sexually dysfunctional genius; torture and dismemberment — wholesome fun for the entire family!
SO THE MILLENNIUM PROJECT IS NOT FOR CHILDREN?
MASSUCCI: Definitely not for children. Nor for the squeamish.