Third Eye Patch

Third Eye Patch by Kevin Donohue and Mark Lind-Hanson
THIRD EYE PATCH is a novel suitable for young adults, 16 years and up. Contains harsh language.
Before the NSA revelations of Edward Snowden, we were writing about NASTY. Before the "Outernet" was an inspired suggestion, we were writing about the "Othernet" and the YAK-1 Satellite. Before the drone program came home to hit American citizens, we were writing about the "Nazgul" Drone. Before the six biggest high-tech companies were summoned to meet with President Obama, we were writing about a "Consortium."
The Third Eye Patch does not exist, as yet. But worldwide surveillance, through internet access as well as drones, camouflaged robots which might take the place of soldiers, false flag operations, and biomedical devices implantable into skin certainly do.
Follow Mike Chen, Boffin Syznic, Guru Abbryggdd, and the rest of the Table Foundation as they struggle to bring into being an alternative in high tech biomedicine, and seek to save the American people, and the rest of the world, from all the forces of darkness... A high-tech thriller-satire set in the America of the present day, THIRD EYE PATCH will take you on a journey you didn't expect could be possible. But this is fiction, and stranger, and yet truer, than reality...
Mike Chen is a has-been Inspirational Writer and New Age Toastmaster, entering middle age. After being swindled in a shaky business deal resulting in bankruptcy, foreclosure, and the walkout of his longtime girlfriend (the beautiful but fragile Beta Bronski), Mike has come to the conclusion he is a fraud, and decides to announce it to the world in a comeback bid.
At his father's funeral, Mike hooks up with his first wife, the notorious literary agent Jennifer Morgan, who takes him back under her wing, and offers him a job with The Table Foundation, the brainchild of brilliant 'outlaw' electronics billionaire, Boffin Syznic. In a fit of inspiration, Mike proposes the Third Eye Patch, a meditative patch similar to a nicotine patch, that delivers a calming pulse, instead of added nicotine and other drugs. Boffin Syznic not only flips over the idea, he proposes to Mike to undertake a journey, a quest: The Search of the Lost Chord, or more accurately, the elusive melody that will be chosen as the algorithm for the meditative patch–The Third Eye Patch!
Along with Musicologist Steve Shank, one-time rock god and guitar-slinger, Mike's odyssey takes him from Athens, Macedonia, and Istanbul, to the Central Asian Republic of Tuva. The pair are shadowed by nosy reporters and shadowy assassins, because the word is out about the Third Eye Patch, which has many special interests (including Mega Corporation Perry Pharmaceuticals, among others), quite alarmed.
A meditative patch that promises, in the words of Boffin Syznic: "A life of optimal health and happiness for Humankind" would be intolerable, and had to stopped right in its tracks.
A shadow agency of the United States Government, the National Agency of Science and Technology (NASTY), has been directed to get the Patch at any cost, and ruthless spymaster FW Piltdown is dispatched to the West Coast, where he recruits and brainwashes Beta Bronski, to spy on the Table Foundation, and in the name of "National Security" acquire the Patch, and pass its secrets on to PerryPharm, and other corporations, to "maintain the balance of power." Will they succeed in suppressing the Third Eye Patch, or will Mike Chen realize his quest for the "Betterment of Humankind, along with a comfortable amount of cash!"
All of this, and more, will be told in The THIRD EYE PATCH.
This new edition supercedes all previous ones and meets the complete approval of the authors.