Review: Fascinating, page-turning read. Worth the effort.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2013
Glimpses of a Black Op, which author Deans Evans writes is `inspired by true events' is a fascinating, all-absorbing read.  It's hard to believe the tale which unfolds is only possibly 20% fiction (and in that, Evans refers to `speculative threads, woven but unprovable'), with the rest based on observation of actual events, research and analysis...though, in saying that, it's not too far-fetched to believe that some of it is, indeed, silently and unknowingly occurring around us.Prepare yourself for an intense roller-coaster ride, as your mind is opened to a vast array of ideas, technologies and possibilities you may have never conceived of before; concepts that, until now, have been relegated to the world of science fiction only.  Enter a world where `magic is used for mischief', not Harry Potter style but a much more dangerous type; the power of an elite few to control the collective consciousness.Imagine a world where, wherever you are and whatever you're doing, you can be tracked, monitored and controlled.  A world where your subconscious is no longer your own; you are a slave to subliminal suggestion without the capacity to even register it.This is the world main character `D' disturbingly finds himself in.  His concern is initially piqued when he realises he is regularly followed by unknown sources.  He then begins to suffer insults and threats from strangers, and random (or perhaps not so) meetings with unidentified persons who seem to know a lot more about him than they should.  Concerned, he visits the police and starts diarising each strange and bewildering occurrence.`D' searches for a `missing factor' that he assumes must be driving these strange occurrences.  He soon starts drawing correlations between these tailing strangers and his deteriorating health and, as he uncovers more and more, he starts to question whether he's been bugged and tampered with his whole life.  And though he comes to understand so much more than he was ever meant to, he battles to discover why he has been subjected to this control and why; were `they' trying to change him into someone else?Regardless of how much of it is based on fact or fiction, Evans' description of `managed daydreams', `real time drifting', `TMS' technology (to control urges, moods and behaviours) and `energy weapons' (thought to have been behind freak human spontaneous combustions) are shockingly alluring and prove a must-read, even for those who don't normally subscribe to conspiracy theories.  For, even if there is only a smidgen of truth within its pages, this is stuff we should be aware about and conscious of, should anything like it ever cross our paths.  And if there isn't a smidgen of truth in it?  Well, who cares?  This is GREAT reading.Go ahead...lose yourself in a world where `they' and their key partners drive consumer choices and hence the economy, political choices and hence government policy, breeding choices and hence genetic mix...where they control YOU.On a final note: as a teacher, well-versed in the methods of our education system, Evans' interpretation of educational programming echoed beliefs of my own, giving credibility to some of his other concepts which I may have otherwise labelled somewhat outlandish.  He notes that cultural and educational programming were the `old ways for hardwiring the brain', where "educating a human in a certain way for six-teen to twenty five years effectively `blinds' them from other colours in the cognition rainbow."  What `D' falls victim to and slowly starts to unravel is simply the `new way' of maintaining control over the masses...conceivable?  Indeed!