The Third Man
(2024)(The seventh book in the Brad Parker and Karen Richmond series)
A novel by Geoffrey M Cooper
Nazi spies, genetic engineering, and the Fourth Reich
Near the end of World War II, a German U-boat deposited two Nazi saboteurs on the coast of Maine. History tells us they were quickly captured. But what if there was a third man? An ultrasecret agent with a long-term mission known only to a select few in the Nazi high command. Men who anticipated the ways that genetic engineering could someday be used to help launch a Fourth Reich.
Amidst the turbulent events of twentieth-century America, the third man partners with a geneticist and the Ku Klux Klan to weaponize the emerging science of molecular biology. First to develop lethal bacteria and ultimately to engineer modifications of the human genome. Until years later, an accidental discovery at the U-boat’s landing site provides a glimpse of their mission. Drawing Professor Brad Parker and Maine State Police Lieutenant Karen Richmond into a struggle to stop the creation of a new class of neo-Nazi warriors.
Genre: Thriller
Near the end of World War II, a German U-boat deposited two Nazi saboteurs on the coast of Maine. History tells us they were quickly captured. But what if there was a third man? An ultrasecret agent with a long-term mission known only to a select few in the Nazi high command. Men who anticipated the ways that genetic engineering could someday be used to help launch a Fourth Reich.
Amidst the turbulent events of twentieth-century America, the third man partners with a geneticist and the Ku Klux Klan to weaponize the emerging science of molecular biology. First to develop lethal bacteria and ultimately to engineer modifications of the human genome. Until years later, an accidental discovery at the U-boat’s landing site provides a glimpse of their mission. Drawing Professor Brad Parker and Maine State Police Lieutenant Karen Richmond into a struggle to stop the creation of a new class of neo-Nazi warriors.
Genre: Thriller