Synopsis
UCLA neurosurgeon Brad Stone believes he had long ago escaped his Faulknerian heritage as the disinherited scion of Mississippi Delta plantation owners and Jim Crow politicians.
But when a prominent civil rights lawyer, asks his help to save the life of a white racist convicted of killing a Black man, a dark legacy of hideous human medical experiments emerges from his Mississippi home state's past.
Hours after Stone's arrival, the lawyer is assassinated as she slips him a memory card packed with damning evidence that her client was insane.
The memory card contains proof that her client had been a secret experimental test subject for Xantaeus -- a military drug that turns its subjects into bloodthirsty killers capable of creating a level of inhuman battlefield slaughter never before seen.
Stone's efforts to get to the bottom of the classified drug experiments make him the target of a right-wing billionaire presidential contender who owns the pharmaceutical corporation producing Xantaeus.
Stone must survive the billionaire's relentless onslaught, and halt the military's imminent deployment of Xantaeus on hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting soldiers..
The life-and-death struggle forces Stone to confront his ancestry's unvanquished racial demons, and drives his deep introspection into the personal decisions and life choices that lead good people to do evil. Or not.
Stone’s struggle closely reflects the author’s own heritage of tainted ancestors who played direct, prominent, and decisive roles in the brutal repression of African Americans.
The factual material in Hellhound proves William Faulkner’s adage that, in the South, “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
This is a military techno-thriller wrapped around a substantial, and documented non-fiction core of history, biography, race, redemption, and the very core of consciousness, perception, and the personal choices that make us human.
Genre: Thriller
UCLA neurosurgeon Brad Stone believes he had long ago escaped his Faulknerian heritage as the disinherited scion of Mississippi Delta plantation owners and Jim Crow politicians.
But when a prominent civil rights lawyer, asks his help to save the life of a white racist convicted of killing a Black man, a dark legacy of hideous human medical experiments emerges from his Mississippi home state's past.
Hours after Stone's arrival, the lawyer is assassinated as she slips him a memory card packed with damning evidence that her client was insane.
The memory card contains proof that her client had been a secret experimental test subject for Xantaeus -- a military drug that turns its subjects into bloodthirsty killers capable of creating a level of inhuman battlefield slaughter never before seen.
Stone's efforts to get to the bottom of the classified drug experiments make him the target of a right-wing billionaire presidential contender who owns the pharmaceutical corporation producing Xantaeus.
Stone must survive the billionaire's relentless onslaught, and halt the military's imminent deployment of Xantaeus on hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting soldiers..
The life-and-death struggle forces Stone to confront his ancestry's unvanquished racial demons, and drives his deep introspection into the personal decisions and life choices that lead good people to do evil. Or not.
Stone’s struggle closely reflects the author’s own heritage of tainted ancestors who played direct, prominent, and decisive roles in the brutal repression of African Americans.
The factual material in Hellhound proves William Faulkner’s adage that, in the South, “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
This is a military techno-thriller wrapped around a substantial, and documented non-fiction core of history, biography, race, redemption, and the very core of consciousness, perception, and the personal choices that make us human.
Genre: Thriller
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