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I purchased this book as part of my quest to find recently written good science fiction. Not knowing anything about it I was pleased to disover the exciting adventure in its pages.

As with most science fiction the start can be a little rough to read as you come to learn the world and the crises it is facing. The characters that evolve turn out to be all that they should be. From the horrific vilians you depise to the likeable leading characters. There are several twists and turns, enough foreshadowing is provided so you aren't blindsided but they still caught me by surprise.

The feel of the book reminded me most of War of the Worlds with a bit of the political warnings of Atlas Shrugged. The end result was an exciting adventure story that leaves your mind wondering if it could really happen.

I'll be watching for other works from this author!


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The Immune Doc Lucky Meisenheimer 9780966761221 Books Reviews

Set in the near future. Dr. John Long's future seems secure. He is living the American dream. He has a successful internal medicine practice in Orlando, Florida. He is well known in the area, like by his office and ER staff, has a good place to call home, and has just claimed Cassandra Shelly by the slipping of an engagement ring onto her finger. But then everything changes. The world is suddenly in a biological crisis of a singular nature. Genetically manufactured creatures, named airwars, are attacking at random. They resemble massive Man O'Wars, often larger than a football field. Each airwar has colonies of hanging tentacles and each tentacle contains multiple poisonous nematocysts that paralyze anything brushing against them. (Much like a jellyfish.) An airwar can use its tentacles to enter homes and pull out any humans dwelling within. Bullets will kill an airwar, but causes thousands of juvenile airwars to be released into the sky. (Kill one and thousands are made.)

The United nations formed an emergency council to disseminate world policy to all governments. The Airwar Scientific Council "ASC" is almost immediately created. (Later renamed Airwar Security Council.) The ASC is run by a bunch of scientists, politicians, and military. In a very brief amount of time, all world governments cede ASC absolute authority regarding laws on airwars, and by extension, those laws affect all facets of peoples' lives. The ASC must approve all mention of airwars in the media and take control of everything but the Internet. Violaters are deemed to be terrorists. Anyone voicing complaints are deemed to be "whiners". Both are dealt with harshly. Global gun confiscation begins. If an airwar wraps its tentacle around someone, even if it is your child, you are not allowed to attack it. The human is to be sacrificed so thousands more airwars are not created.

Of course, not everyone hands over their weapons. Militia groups spring up throughout the globe. With every airwar they kill, thousands more are made.

John's life comes to a halt when airwars attack Cassandra's area. And it shatters when John views his fiancé's body in the morgue. Consumed with grief and the burning desire for revenge, John ends up confronting, and surprisingly defeating, an airwar without any juveniles being released. The event is caught on camera, earning him lots of fame for being one of the rare individuals who are immune to the airwars' stings. It also earns him a one-way trip to one of the government's processing plants, where "Immunes" are tortured and skinned alive in order to extract proteins from their glands. John is lucky. Just before he is to unwillingly shed his skin, John, and all surviving Immunes, are pardoned.

Navy Admiral J.P. Beckwourth, with ASC approval, is forming the World Immune Corps. He wants John, as the one who discovered how to kill an airwar without juveniles being released, to lead the first group. The team is called First Immune Attack Force. John teaches and leads ten immune people to protect humanity. There is no feasible way they can actually save the human race, but the ASC claims that their scientists have found a way. But the ASC needs time to finish whatever they are working on.

The press has given John the sobriquet "The Immune". As a talented public relations guy, Beckwourth plans to use this to the team's advantage. Beckwourth convinces The Immune and his team that the world needs heros, to see something actually being done against the airwars threat. Once humanity has hope, riots and militia attacks would cease and stability could be maintained. It would also fulfill John's urge to kill the creatures that had taken Cassandra from him. But exactly what is the ASC working on and why is the knowledge being kept from the public? As John slowly begins to figure out how the ASC intends to end the crisis, he realizes the true meaning of fear.

***** FIVE STARS! Winston Churchill is quoted as having said, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." In this story, those bodyguards are referred to as "FS Maneuvers". Fortitude South was the greatest covert disinformation operation of World War II. It allowed the Allies to pull off D-Day. Simply put, deceptions/lies are used to distract people from noticing an underlying agenda. The author, Meisenheimer, seems to thoroughly understand the maneuver. It shows up often in his story.

Long ago someone told me that in order to pen a realistic story you must write about something you know. Dr. Meisenheimer has done this in spades. Want some examples? The main character and the author both have medical backgrounds, their practices are in the same area, they are avid swimmers, and they even share the name of John. (Those are off the top of my head.) But unlike the main character, Doc Lucky's background is riddled with a wide variety of interests and they commingle to help develop the rest of the story.

"The Immune" takes a biological crisis and expands the problem to include military strategy, survivalism, political science, corruption in the government, human psychology, and, since the airwar is a genetically manufactured creature, experimental mutations. Though this is categorized as science fiction, who can honestly state that such a destructive creature will not someday be produced, if it has not already?

This story did not fully hook my interest until the second chapter; however, subtle symptoms of the airwar threat appear by the second page. As you read, take nothing for granted. The main and secondary characters are well developed. The story line flows smoothly, with little or no choppiness. The plot and strategies are explained in laymen terms. My only real concern with this book is the front cover. With apologizes to the artist, the cover art is not eye catching. I am sure that the artwork looks great on paper or canvas, but as a front cover it comes across (to me) as too busy and the two people are not well drawn. Though everyone knows that a book should never be judged by its cover, the fact is that most buyers are drawn to a book because of an eye catching, attractive cover. I have no doubt that many will pass over this gem, but for those who read this review, I sincerely recommend purchasing "The Immune". It is a story that will engage your imagination and, more than likely, give many a few major concerns about today's government. Doc Lucky Meisenheimer is a multi-talented individual and I look forward to reading more of his stories in the future. *****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
The epitaph for the hero reads, "Liberty is a fragile gift, take one vial of fear, add three drops of lust-for-power, and it's easily poisoned."

This cheeky, irreverent, delightfully un-p.c. story should be a must-read for every person in this country, including children, who doesn't appreciate the liberty they so blithely enjoy every day (though parents might want to weed out one particularly graphic scene at the end when the power mongers begin to reap their just rewards). It's a deliciously wicked commentary on our current political culture-gone-world-power-mad.

Dr. John Long rises from newly-engaged ER physician to world-renown hero in the battle against the invasion of deadly airwars - a super-sized aerial version of the sea's man-o-war. The loss of his fiancé to these monsters feeds his rage against the enemy the world is told has loosed this dread in order to destroy all humanity. John is one of the rare people on earth who has a skin condition that leaves him immune to the poison of the attackers, enabling him not only to rescue new victims, but also to kill the monsters. He becomes the leader of the First Immune Attack Force.

Meisenheimer uses situations and plays on names out of our newspapers to craft a tale full of twists and turns and surprises to bring his reader through fear, anger, terror, jealousy, insanity, and so much more - to a very satisfying ending. Though I can usually spot plot twists, this one surprised even me at times.
I purchased this book because I saw an ad for it in Reason magazine. It was very disappointing and I regret purchasing it. It was very poorly written and the characters did not feel realistic at all.
I thought it was a great read.
Really close to Heinlein's earlier work, think Podkayne of Mars, etc...

Deus Ex Machina ending though.... i hate those.

It's worth a read however.
This has been the best off market book have found yet. The writing is ok and straight forward, a fun read with a nice twist in the end.
I read the reader reviews and awards for this book and thought this must be a hidden gem. Just not my cup of tea. The characters are cartoonish, more caricatures than true characters. Clearly the author is libertarian and wrote the book to push that view point. It really does not depict the world as it is....more an imaginary world that people like Beck and Limbaugh see.
But if this type of "novel" used strictly to push an agenda floats your boat you will no doubt enjoy the read. And no i am not a liberal nor am I a conservative.....I am an independent who likes to read and likes books that present situations that make me think and ponder this book has none of that- it has a very rigid world view and never varies from it.
I purchased this book as part of my quest to find recently written good science fiction. Not knowing anything about it I was pleased to disover the exciting adventure in its pages.

As with most science fiction the start can be a little rough to read as you come to learn the world and the crises it is facing. The characters that evolve turn out to be all that they should be. From the horrific vilians you depise to the likeable leading characters. There are several twists and turns, enough foreshadowing is provided so you aren't blindsided but they still caught me by surprise.

The feel of the book reminded me most of War of the Worlds with a bit of the political warnings of Atlas Shrugged. The end result was an exciting adventure story that leaves your mind wondering if it could really happen.

I'll be watching for other works from this author!