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After suffering a breakdown which forces him out of the military, Chris Blake is now a heroin junkie, living day to day on the streets of Portland.His fellow junkies talk of being kidnapped and subjected to experiments in a strange machine which seems to be searching their brains for something. What would anyone want with the brain of a drug addict?Soon, it is Chris's turn. However he doesn't get returned like the others. He's a keeper.On the face of things, this mysterious group offers to transform Chris into a kind of real-world Superman. Not just cure his addiction and return him to normal. They will make him better than normal. Much better.His training takes him across the globe, from Australia to Japan, from Canada to California. From Zen meditation to mixed martial arts, Blake is slowly transformed into an elite killer.But there is no such thing as a free lunch and soon Chris realises how they want to put his newfound abilities to work.Soon, however, it becomes obvious that there are too many co-incidences from his past for it to be pure chance that he has wound up here.In this taut thriller by Willem de Jong, the question is posed - With sufficiently advanced science at your disposal, can a broken man be fixed?Join Blake in this first book of the Phoenix Trilogy, as he slowly pieces together the confusing jigsaw of his life and finally understands the events in his past which have been, until recently, just partially suppressed fragments.