The Prometheus Man

by Scott Reardon

Overview

A Top 40 Amazon bestseller.

The Prometheus Man is a thriller about last remaining frontier in the world: us.

The story begins as a manhunt for a serial killer and explodes into a race to uncover an experimental program that would rip apart humankind. The characters are people we come to love: a young drifter without a family, a hard-bitten party girl, a CIA agent called upon to hunt down a traitor he admires.

Inspired by Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein, The Prometheus Man is about characters going all the way to the edge of existence-then staring in horror as they realize they've reached the pitface of the abyss.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733240482
Publisher:	Aspen Press
Publication date:	03/18/2022
Pages:	390
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Scott Reardon is the author of the bestselling Dark Continent thriller series, which is being adapted as a television series. He is also the author of the bestselling novel Bonfire of the Beasts.Mr. Reardon has written and directed two feature films, Our Pet Kat and Dakota Bastard. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and three children.

Editorial Reviews

10/24/2016
Tom Reese, the 22-year-old hero of Reardon’s intriguing if flawed first novel, is searching for answers into why his brother, Eric, who was employed by a pharmaceutical company in Paris, was murdered. After stealing the identity of Tom Blake, a CIA officer who’s proficient in Russian and graduated from Georgetown University magna cum laude, and infiltrating a high-level investigation, Reese, a college dropout who “was nobody really,” uncovers information about the mysterious program that Eric was involved in, Project Prometheus. Everyone associated with the top-secret program, Reese discovers, seems to be dying untimely deaths—and he may be the next target. Reardon writes well and keeps the action moving as he explores the unforeseen consequences of Project Prometheus, but Reese lacks credibility. The sheer implausibility of many sequences (he hot-wires a car and then pulls off high-speed maneuvers that would make James Bond envious) risks losing thriller fans who value verisimilitude. Agent: Stacia Decker, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

"Reardon takes the reader on a wild ride through what could be Hell's theme park. . . . The Prometheus Man electrifies. But it transcends mere entertainment; it raises profound questions about the uses of science and technology."—Jay Strafford, Richmond Times-Dispatch

"A winning international thriller that is as smart as it is suspenseful. Part Robert Ludlum, part Michael Crichton, with a contemporary spin all Scott Reardon's own, The Prometheus Man is flat-out a great read!"—Christopher Reich, New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Deception

"The Prometheus Man is a bullet-paced thriller that provokes fear, anger, and sympathy simultaneously, and makes us hope the world never lets this particular fiction turn into reality."—Thomas Perry, Edgar Award winner and bestselling author of The Informant

"The Prometheus Man is a phenomenal debut, full of non-stop action and thrills. With this bioengineered twist on Jason Bourne, Reardon offers a dark vision of covert work that may be closer to the present than we think."—Matthew Quirk, bestselling author of The 500 and Cold Barrel Zero


"A debut thriller that succeeds . . . Many high-octane action scenes Reardon executes with skill."—Kirkus Reviews

"The Prometheus Man is not only a stellar debut, it's a rare find in the reading landscape: a fast-paced techno-thriller with well-realized characters and a beating heart. A lot of people are running around claiming to be the next Michael Crichton. Scott Reardon actually has the writing chops to pull it off."—Brad Parks, Shamus Award-winning author of Say Nothing

"Reardon has packed his debut with action, plot twists, and well-sketched characters. . . . Recommend this one to readers of John Burdett's The Bangkok Asset."—Booklist

From the Publisher

A madman is on the loose, and CIA Agent Tom Blake is working against the clock as the bodies pile up. Maxwell Hamilton is an excellent narrator for the dramatic and violent events of this thriller. The details of the mounting crimes are not for the faint of heart—as the bloody opening scene makes clear. Listeners will want to be mindful of young ears while playing this chapter. Hamilton tells the story at a brisk pace in keeping with the intensity of the events. His determined tone plays up the clash between the macho CIA agent and the villain. M.R. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

MAY 2017 - AudioFile

A madman is on the loose, and CIA Agent Tom Blake is working against the clock as the bodies pile up. Maxwell Hamilton is an excellent narrator for the dramatic and violent events of this thriller. The details of the mounting crimes are not for the faint of heart—as the bloody opening scene makes clear. Listeners will want to be mindful of young ears while playing this chapter. Hamilton tells the story at a brisk pace in keeping with the intensity of the events. His determined tone plays up the clash between the macho CIA agent and the villain. M.R. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

MAY 2017 - AudioFile

2016-10-05
After a CIA agent is murdered, his brother seeks revenge and stumbles onto a plot to create a superhuman killer.Author Reardon delivers a debut thriller that succeeds on almost every count. He works well with several traditional thriller tropes. At the core of his complex plot is a classic doppelgänger: the protagonist, Tom Blake, hired on to work with the CIA, is not who he says he is. He’s really Tom Reese. Reese stole Blake’s identity as a CIA agent as a way to gain information that will lead him to whomever killed his brother. Reese is canny enough to know that it won’t be long before the CIA discovers he’s an imposter—they’re already pressing for a lie detector test. With a day or less before the agency discovers his cover ID, Reese is in a classic race against time. To complicate matters, Reardon draws on myth by making the real Blake superhuman. In Paris, Project Prometheus had been trying to engineer human killing machines—they’d already doubled the weight of a test chimpanzee, giving it skin like “raw hamburger microwaved gray.” It appears, as well, that some others will kill to turn the eponymous man into their own killer. All Reese lacks as he sets off to find his brother’s killers is a comely companion. Onto the scene Reardon summons Silvana Nast, “one of those people you knew was going to be great-looking even if you only saw them from behind.” Reese and Silvana tear off in a Peugeot, one of many high-octane action scenes Reardon executes with skill. Alas, Reardon is less successful at giving his characters texture or his locales color and life. To keep a swift pace on the trail, telling detail seems to have gone by the wayside. The chase is all here, and for some that will be enough.

Kirkus Reviews