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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: The Thomas Brent Adventures is a trilogy based upon the life and times of Thomas Brent, a lonely, very ordinary man, who witnesses an event that will change his life forever and make him more than he ever dreamed he could be ... if he can survive. Join Thomas Brent in this Sci-Fi action adventure story that follows his transformation from Technician to an Agent for IWR and more."

eBook Publisher: SynergEbooks, Published: SynergEbooks, 2000
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2004

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [1.0 MB], eReader (PDB) [209 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [193 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [172 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [178 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [213 KB], hiebook (KML) [457 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [233 KB], iSilo (PDB) [158 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [198 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [239 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [261 KB]
Words: 62093
Reading time: 177-248 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
ISBN: 0-7443-0137-8

"Thomas Brent's Adventures kept getting better! I'm just sorry there were only three...would like to read more by Robert Love. His descriptions create wonderfully vivid images and his imagination is a source of delight & continuous surprise!"- S. Maxwell

I was tired--there was no doubt about that. It wasn't bad enough that I had been assigned to the Corpett Project, but to be put down in the GS Lab! That topped it all.

As I recalled the day, I could see them, Bill, Sal, and that Edward Marks, Mr. Team Leader himself. He was the cause of it all. "I see from your record, Mr. Brent, that you're an average Tech." He said it, right in front of everyone! And even though they turned their heads and acted busy, I could feel the snickers. Worst of all, he was right. Average skills, intelligence, looks and emotions, which were on boil at this moment from the humiliation of this final straw. Even my co-workers, Bill and Sal, had actually started to call me "BOACEA," a slang term for menials used on the inner planets.

The Pretoria was my only escape lately; a place to put things back in order. A place to be invisible, which is what Thomas Brent was to the rest of society. My entire life amounted to my work these days. Aside from the involvement of the Project, I was alone. Except for those who had to deal with me on a daily basis, I was a non-person.

At least to Bill and Sal I was "BOACEA" (not much, but at least it was some recognition, something short of total rejection).

I longed for change, companionship, someone that cared. As I sat, I played a little game that I always played here, observing each woman who came in. I imagined the development of a relationship. But even as I imagined it they drifted by and on to their lives as though I were no more than the furniture.

As the ultimate proof of my invisibility, a couple sitting in the back-to-back S chair with me began to touch each other intimately, as if I wasn't even there. I sat in amazement as they fondled each other only inches from my face. I could smell them and almost feel the quiet little sounds the man made as he became aroused. From the corner of my eye I watched, wishing that I were in that other seat with those long caressing fingers stimulating me. I could feel the warmth and the softness. It made me long for something to break the loneliness of this place.

Suddenly, the man gasped and went stiff, his head slowly turning toward me. I knew that look, I had seen it once before. The transway station attendant at GS Lab station had that same look when the first Corpett test had exploded, pushing a piece of deck plating through his chest.

By the time it registered in my mind that the man was dead, he had begun to fall to the floor and people were looking. The girl, where was the girl? "Hey you!" I turned just in time to see the feathered fringe of a robe disappear from the out door. Can't get involved! Must get out of here. "Hey! You! Stop!" People were moving toward me now. I lurched past the table and managed my way to the outer door with voices shouting behind me, "Stop that man. Stop him!"

Before I thought about it I had stumbled into the transway tube. As the door slammed shut I looked at the tube display panel on the inner wall, its lights flashing the location as the car moved. FA Level, Tube One, I was headed for Command Central. Those people in the Pretoria seemed to think that I had killed that man. "I'll go straight to security at Com Central and tell them about the girl and that will be that!" I leaned back against the hard wall of the transway car and watched as the indicator lights moved from left to right, flickering from one little box to the next with a quiet little click, click, click, click, click.

It seemed to take an eternity, tube one, two, and three ... the indicator continued to flash as I passed each station. Finally, the door snapped open at Com Central station. It was busy as hell, people running back and forth, lights flashing and people talking over the hubbub of the crowd.

Two men stood just to my left. "Did you hear? They just flashed it over the COM SYS. Some guy just snuffed the team leader of the Corpett Project!"

The room began to spin. I fell back against the transway tube. The face, oh Jesus. It was Edward Marks! The man in the Pretoria was Edward Marks! Oh great! Security's not gonna buy this. I remembered what I had said to Sal just after Marks had left the room. "I ought to 'average tech' him right out the closest airlock!"

"Hey, you okay, buddy?"

"What?" It was a strange face hovering over me. It appeared to look genuinely concerned.

"Are you all right? You almost fell into the transway."

"Just felt a little weak for a moment, I'm okay now, thanks." I turned and walked a few paces away. I gotta get out of here. It won't take security two shakes to put this together.