Characters

dr. Peter Thomason/Pyotr Trofomov

Doctor Pyotr Trofimov is a gifted scientist at the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics when Russia’s leadership changes from Boris Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin. In the upheaval, Trofimov is recruited by the U.S. government to join an exceptional team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Still grieving the tragic loss of his wife, Natalia, Trofimov agrees. He changes his name to Peter Thomason. For the next twenty years, he develops a revolutionary treatment to alter cell DNA in the brain’s behavior areas. The results cure psychopathic behavior—the treatment program, code-named The Purification.

Brad Zanger

A special forces stint in Afghanistan and hard police work pushed Brad Zanger to a mental breakdown, murder, and prison life sentence. Wanting to freedom and to reunite with his wife, Elizabeth, he agrees to be the first human trial for The Purification. Zanger’s brain is removed and treated in a unique sphere. He lives in a cyber world incredibly close to reality. As his treatment takes effect, Zanger realizes he acquired unlimited learning capacity. Zanger spends time contemplating how to use his new abilities as a vigilante for justice when he returns to a world in great need of it.

Samson Collins III

AS CEO of several companies, including ColSci, a technology company, Collins built a business empire on government contracts. The billionaire is used to getting want he wants. When ColSci is passed over for a contract for The Purification and subsequent others, ColSci is on the brink of ruin. Collins swears revenge when he discovers his son’s killer, Samson Collins IV is the first patient for the program. Simultaneously acquiring the program’s technology and avenging the lost heir to his empire is too delicious an opportunity to pass up.

Elizabeth zanger

Elizabeth Zanger has stood by her husband, Brad, through some tough times. That is until she discovers her husband has volunteered for a mind-altering program that could free him from prison. His decision may be the one that ends their relationship. But first, she knows she must help rescue him from a madman seeking revenge.

cyrus vansickle

Being hired by Samson Collins to kidnap some guy’s brain from a government lab was the perfect assignment for Cyrus Vansickle. He considers himself God’s prophet. A government laboratory conducting ungodly experiments to change human behavior is the ideal opportunity to be the instrument of God’s wrath. He vows to destroy the lab, whether he can deliver Zanger to Collins or not.

Dr. Zoe Cantrall

Zoe Cantrall is on The Purification team, acting as personal physicians to the patient, Brad Zanger. Zoe is brilliant and beautiful, but failed personal relationships put her in the crosshairs of those who want the technology used in The Purification.

Max Bloch

Before becoming bodyguard, chauffeur, and henchman for Samson Collins III, Max Boch had a less than stellar military career. Being discharged for insubordination is an odd comparison to his unconditional dedication to Collins. He carries out the billionaire’s bidding without moral consideration, principally when his actions harm those who represent the powerful government that rejected him.