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Blue Monday

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Blue Monday opens with a Bang and doesn't let up. Hard driving, roller-coaster adventure sure to please everyone. It's got action, romance, government conspiracies, and double- and triple-crosses. Blue Monday keeps you guessing until the end, leaving you wanting more! Word is that Ron Brassfield is working on a follow-up that will take us even deeper into the conspiracy.
This would make an excellent movie or 'series event' for the SciFi Channel. Look out, Michael Chriton!

Would a cloned human being be tolerated, or would a cloned human give birth to a new form of prejudice? What if the person were a designer mutant who didn't look like anyone else alive, because the pigmentation of his skin made him blue?
In Blue Monday, published by 1stBooks Library, scientists clone a boy using DNA from a wide spectrum of humanity - and beyond - in an effort to create a human who can survive environmental extremes. But that is not the end of his secrets.
The boy is kept locked away from the world for study and for his own protection, which he fiercely resents, until, of course, he one day escapes captivity and puts all his assumptions to the test.
His adventure has only begun when he finds that prejudice is only the beginning of his troubles. Will discovers he he has inherited some paranormal traits from his hybridized gene pool, and that he has been lured into the open by a power-mad, sinister cabal armed with advanced weaponry and bent on total world domination.
Will and Pam Travers, an attractive but naive prison psychologist drafted to be his re-programmer, are forced to run for their lives together, pursued by conspirators who seek to possess Will, body and soul, and all the secrets that make him unique.
Can Will find the happiness he so desires, or will he always be a blue, blue boy?

First, why 4/5 stars if I think it is an excellent book. It wraps up in the end to quickly for me personally. That's the only thing I didn't like about the book.

However, I know that the author is planning a second book, and that is why it wraps up the way it does, it is leading into book two.

Now, for the book itself. "Blue Monday" is about an attempt to clone a human for the sole purpose of being able to survive in a post-nuclear world. He has his DNA altered to allow him to survive high radiation, extreme cold, etc... But one of the scientists has put some other genes into the mix, and when Will (the main character) starts learning about his abilities, he starts fine tuning them.

The book takes place with Will still being kept in a top-secret facility from which he wants freedom. His newfound abilities allows him this, but at a price. There are rogue parties that would like to see Will dead, and others that would like to exploit his abilities to their own ends. This puts Will and his friends in danger. Follow along with Will as he sets out to escape the facility where he has lived his entire life, save his friends from being used against him, and find a place in the world in which we live today.

Hats off to Ron Brassfield for bringing such a contemporary, yet Sci-Fi look into the issues of cloning which are upon us a moral and ethical society today. And for covering intolerance and prejudices in an open minded and thought provoking way.

This is truly one of the best Sci-Fi books I have read.

An action-filled allegory about prejudice and human potential that can be read on more than one level. Highly recommended.