Review: Closing Pandora's Box
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2013
This trilogy by Lance and James Morcan speaks to the evil of the Omega group; a world wide consortium whose only interest is money. While there is nothing unusual about that kind of power bid and avarice on a scale that nothing can adequately measure in today's world, Omega is a group that has less than zero moral fiber; a group that does experiments on children worthy of Dr. Mengele in his most demented moments. Their objective is to program, via any means, via any horrid physical and mental experiments, children into adults who will by their programming become assassins; operatives programed to do whatever bidding comes to them. Operatives to kill.Each orphan was trained to well beyond normal limits of physical, mental abilities; told that no situation was impossible for them to overcome.Each orphan is implanted with a tracker so their whereabouts are always known should one go renegade and need to be dispatched, permanently.Each orphan, numbered one to twenty-three, has been used their entire lives by Omega,  Did they have moments of doubt; were any of them yearning to be free? Was there a line that could be crossed to make them act outside their conditioning?This is a fast paced, high action story line with enough truth in it to rattle you.The Morcan's trilogy is more than just a thriller, an adventure tale. It is an 'open your eyes' invitation to acknowledge the world around you as it is. It is a clarion call to recognize that those monsters, for surely they cannot be called human, who spread, who perpetuate evil are a weak, spineless bunch who live in the shadows; who are incapable of facing their comeuppance when faced with retribution. A slithering gaggle of creatures who cannot face the havoc they have wrought, who swallow poison, leap out of windows rather than face even a fragment of the pain they have caused others.This trilogy is a revelry call to recognize power bids, human trafficking, and yes, evil itself with the power of love, with the commitment, that nothing will stop me from exposing its dark, pustulant face. All evil needs to grow is no one taking a stand and calling it what it is. That is true for orphan number 9 as it is for all of us. Don't miss the courage of this book by father and son writers, Lance and James Morcan. They take you places we all need to go.