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    Immune
    Immune
    Immune
    Audiobook15 hours

    Immune

    Written by Richard Phillips

    Narrated by MacLeod Andrews

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    In the final pages of the spellbinding novel The Second Ship, NSA director Jonathan Riles failed to halt the Rho Project’s infiltration of the US government. Now the Project’s alien nano-serum is loosed upon the world, disguised as a miracle cure and leaving too many people—good people—dead. And anyone still alive to challenge the Project won’t be for long: an assassin known only as El Chupacabra is systematically eliminating any and all opposition.

    At the top of the hit list is NSA fixer Jack Gregory, along with Heather McFarland and Mark and Jennifer Smythe, the three teenagers who first exposed the Rho Project’s evil agenda. In just a few short months, the trio has seen life as they know it stripped away, trapping them in a confusing new reality where human DNA is modified at an alarming rate. Struggling to understand what they are becoming and on the run for their lives, the teens and their remaining allies must stop the Rho Project before it alters the very fabric of humanity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 30, 2012
    ISBN9781469219424
    Immune
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    Richard Phillips

    Richard Phillips was born in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1956. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1979 and qualified as a US Army Ranger, going on to serve as an officer in the army. He earned a master’s degree in physics from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1989, completing his thesis work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. After working as a research associate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he returned to the army to complete his tour of duty. Richard is the author of several science fiction and fantasy series, including The Rho Agenda (The Second Ship, Immune, and Wormhole); The Rho Agenda Inception (Once Dead, Dead Wrong, and Dead Shift); The Rho Agenda Assimilation (The Kasari Nexus, The Altreian Enigma, and The Meridian Ascent); and Mark of Fire, Prophecy’s Daughter, Curse of the Chosen, and The Shattered Trident in the epic Endarian Prophecy series. Richard lives with his wife, Carol, in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit www.rhoagenda.com.

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    • 3/5
      Diese und weitere Rezensionen findet ihr auf meinem Blog Anima Libri - Buchseele

      Schon mit dem ersten Band von Richard Phillips „Rho Agenda“-Trilogie bin ich persönlich nicht so recht war geworden und konnte den Eindruck einfach nicht loswerden, dass es sich bei dem Roman lediglich um eine ausgedehnte Einleitung handelte. Trotzdem hatte es mir die Idee hinter der Serie irgendwie angetan und Hoffnungen auf einen „besseren“ zweiten Band waren daher definitiv vorhanden.

      Leider hat sich auch „Rho Agenda: Immun“ von Richard Phillips für meinen Geschmack als eher mau herausgestellt. Mein größtes Problem dabei waren die Erzähler, die drei College-Kids, auf deren Schultern nun quasi das Schicksal der Menschheit ruht. Mit diesen Herrschaften bin ich leider überhaupt nicht warm geworden, sie sind mir immer und immer wieder als zu kindisch, zu pubertär, zu unreif für ihre Situation aufgefallen und waren durch dieses Verhalten leider auch auf Dauer ziemlich nervig.

      Eigentlich war das auch schon mein einziges wirkliches Problem mit dem Roman, (fast) alle anderen, kleineren Unstimmigkeiten, über die ich in der Geschichte gestolpert bin, lassen sich auf dieses Hauptproblem zurück führen. Aber so ist das halt leider, wenn man mit den Protagonisten nicht warm wird, dann kann die Grundidee der Geschichte noch so gut sein, die Handlung auf einem noch so tollen Konzept aufbauen, wirklich gefallen wird einem das Buch eher nicht. Insgesamt driftete dieser Teil der Trilogie auch weiter in Richtung YA ab, als es im ersten Band der Fall war.

      Das hing auch mit dem zweiten Problem zusammen, das ich mit dem Roman hatte, das sich ebenfalls auf die Charaktere bezieht. Denn leider waren für meinen Geschmack auch die Bösen in diesem Roman nicht wirklich nachvollziehbar, sie wirkten zu flach und zu konstruiert, sie fallen in diese Kategorie von Bösewichten, die einfach nur böse sind, weil die Geschichte jemand Böses brauchte, nicht weil sie ernsthafte, auf irgendeiner Ebene nachvollziehbare Motive haben, um sich gegen die „Helden“ der Geschichte zu stellen.

      Alles in allem bin ich nach wie vor ein großer Fan der Idee hinter dieser Serie, kann aber auch beim zweiten Band nicht sagen, dass mir die Umsetzung wirklich gefallen hätte. „Rho Agenda: Immun“ von Richard Phillips ist okay, aber mehr leider auch nicht, Schuld daran sind vor allem die Figuren, mit denen ich persönlich nichts anfangen konnte und die der Geschichte damit auch sehr viel genommen haben. Schade!
    • 1/5
      Hair and nails continued to grow long after a corpse was dead

      That's where I gave up on reading (page 28). If the author can't be bothered to check his facts, I can't be bothered to read his ridiculous book. Science fiction can only be fun if you get the science part right.
    • 4/5
      Completely worth the somewhat painful first book. This one was dark, became much more serious and in depth with each page.

      The author is finding himself and rooting this story out of his imagination to give us a much more solid tale then with the first book in the series Looking forward to Wormhole.
    • 5/5
      Richard Phillips produced an amazing ‘Roswell’ science fiction thriller with ‘The Second Ship (The Rho Agenda)’ and he certainly did not disappoint with ‘Immune (Book Two of the Rho Agenda)’. I was on the edge of suspense while submersed in his created world as the story continues with Mark, Jen and Heather trying to expose what the Los Alamos Laboratory is attempting to release to the world, as being dangerous for the population. Along the way, the teens suffer their personal trials and the team sent in to investigate the National Laboratory is left on their own as many attached to them are killed. An investigative reporter becomes involved and leaks the information on the nano-serum and others meet tragic ends.Phillips is phenomenal at adding in a few new characters, giving description of all things occurring and taking this story to another twisted, but enjoyable level. If you have an overly active imagination and find violence offensive, then I would suggest you pass as descriptions on some events are just enough to provoke the wildest imagination to take over. Yet for any sci-fi lover, or those that just love to read anything ‘alien’ related, this was amazing as it grips you immediately and the conspiracies unwrap and you find yourself rooting for the main characters to overcome! I am anxiously and impatiently awaiting ‘Wormhole’, the third in this wonderful series.