Gateway Essentials
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The space programme has finally lost its novelty, and a jaded public hardly notices another moon launch. Skilful PR men preserve the illusion that the missions have become routine.
But astronaut Richard Martin can tell a different story. Of panic in deep space, of crewmen pushed beyond breaking point, of official indifference towards his own shattered life.
Martin is effectively put under wraps - until the pilot of a moon capsule, loaded with nuclear weaponry goes beserk and a nightmare develops, threatening to engulf the world - a nightmare that only Martin could end.
Earth's Elite - or its outcasts?
For a selected, genetically-fitted few among the teeming millions of the twenty-first century, to become a Messenger for the Hulm Institute is to escape the prison that is life, that is earth.
A Messenger is Noble!
A Messenger is One of the Chosen.
A Messenger is a Forerunner of a Time in which Fear and Disease will Disappear Forever.
And inside a Messenger's head is murder, impotence and despair.