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    Rebirth of a Marine
    Rebirth of a Marine
    Rebirth of a Marine
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    Rebirth of a Marine

    By Aaron Pery

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    Just days Before his retirement, Marine Major General Stanley Petersen is severely injured and suffers a fatal heart attack while watching the famous Friday night retreat parade ceremony at the Marine Barracks in Washington DC.
    Despite his utter certainty that he had died as a result, General Petersen wakes up at Bethesda Hospital very much alive but in the young body of another Fatally wounded Marine and is dumbfounded by this fact.
    He quickly discovers that his body and mind had served as a host to a very unusual old Entity for decades, and that in its wish to have his mind survive had transferred it into the dying young man while repairing his body and bringing it back to full health.
    Major Dan Evens, as he is now called, is recruited to foil an Al-Qaida plot to create a West Coast 9/11 mission since he had gained many years of experience in finding and eliminating such operatives, but never on such a scale. He uses all the unique powers that he had inherited from the Entity that he had hosted for decades to thwart the Jihadist mission and establishes himself as a premier anti-terrorist combatant for the US Armed Forces and the CIA.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAaron Pery
    Release dateJun 17, 2011
    ISBN9781458190864
    Rebirth of a Marine
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    Aaron Pery

    As most authors might claim, I was always been a natural storyteller and voracious book reader. Somehow, I also knew that some day I would sit down and write a book, which I did quite recently.When I finally sat in front of my computer monitor to do just that, the words literally came pouring out. Before very long, I had written many books in various genres.At first, my prolific writing was mainly for the pleasure and self-entertainment involved, until I discocered Smashwords and ebooks, and here I am, a published author with a long list of books to my credit. And many more to come.

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      Rebirth of a Marine - Aaron Pery

      Rebirth of a Marine

      Aaron Pery

      www.airper@aol.com

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      ISBN #978-1-4581-9086-4

      Copyright 2011 by Aaron Pery

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      Rebirth of a Marine

      Prologue

      A disturbance in the periphery of its environment awakened the being from its energy preserving slumber to reach the fringes of its awareness. It sent out perception feelers toward the source of the sudden unfamiliar disorder in its surroundings and observed it with interest. It was the first time ever that the organism was able to sense anything beyond its immediate milieu, where it had lain for many eons while instinctively feeding and developing mindlessly. And now it was roused, though it knew nothing of its powers, nor was it aware of any wishes or desires.

      It was just a lump of viscous material enclosed within a hard shell exoskeleton much like that of an oyster which was devoid of any emotion other than an overriding instinct to feed. It grasped with a sudden hitherto dormant cognizance, that its very existence had been in danger for a long time now as its once huge watery habitat was evaporating and diminishing. Its fully awakened faculties perceived that it must extricate itself from this environment or perish very soon.

      The gelatinous lump of nearly pure plasma had existed in an ever receding pool of an ancient ocean that had been born at the dawn of terrestrial time. It had been created, as were others of its kind, by an accidental merging of two tiny, single-celled zygotes in the thick primordial soup of an inland sea. Other, similar matings, had grown and developed into creatures that crawled out of the oceans to evolve into all the myriad organisms that later inhabited the earth. They had all advanced quickly in comparison to the organism, which took many millions of years to progress into what it had now become—a cognizant life form immobile and encased within a hard shell that was similar in size and shape to the many types of edible shellfish that lived within its surroundings.

      The group of semi-erect, shuffling-gated primates that waded through the pool of stinking water in the depths of the primeval forest dislodged the being from the ancient rock to which it was anchored. It floated to the surface and was pushed to the edge of the pool by the wavelets created by these waders. The last member in line of the crossing troupe, an aging male, glimpsed the plump morsel at the edge of the pool, grabbed it, and popped it into hits wide mouth, swallowing it whole since it had barely any teeth.

      Once stripped of its outer shell by the digestive juices within the primate's stomach, the being, sensing its imminent demise unless it escaped from its eroding prison, quickly clung to one of the walls and climbed upward. Once away from this danger, it stopped moving and surveyed its new surroundings for a moment, discovering that it was resting over a pulsating tube that carried life-giving fluids through its host. Somehow, without any clear understanding of what it was or how it managed to do that, the being reshaped itself into a long thin strand that enabled it to breach the artery and let itself be carried by the moving bloodstream as it nourished itself.

      The being ended its voyage in the upper reaches of the primate’s brain, where it embedded itself within an even more nourishing substance. Its needs were slight so it had no effect on the health of its host nor its mental capacity, such as it was. Once it became used to existing within this new environment, it began sending tiny tendrils into the living body that it had acquired, savoring its mobility and myriad corporeal senses.

      Using its raw though highly instinctive intelligence, it quickly learned to adapt to its new surroundings and manner of living. After a while, when it realized that the body of its host had reached a weakened physical state and was about to expire, a dominant self preservation instinct found the means to spring into the nearest primate body in a great burst of energy. It took thousands of years of constantly moving from one dying primitive into the next for the creature to fully comprehend its true environment. As its intelligence expanded, the symbiotic parasite found that its position in the primitives' pack, always within the body of a lagging host, which had been a mindless process of duplicating its very first host’s type and position, may be hazardous to its existence.

      It learned that its very first host, and the long succession of the new ones afterward, were all aging males who used to be dominant but had lost their position due to advanced age, who could barely keep up with the movements of the pack and were most likely to perish either by natural causes or as easy prey to predators. Once it understood this fact, it changed its mode of existence by entering the body of a young male, where it discovered that this type lived much longer than those it had used before. It also learned to like residing within a very young, vibrant body that afforded it a longer and more heightened ability to learn—an ever growing wish that it had acquired along the way.

      The desire to learn, it quickly discovered, was greatly enhanced by these new type of hosts who maintained a constant close physical contact with other, stronger members of the group. The instinctive need to dominate the pack improved the being's mental and social learning curve and it was so delighted by its discovery that it began to acquire ever-stronger hosts until it reached the position of the Alpha male.

      It remained in this position as the pack it belonged to kept advancing upward on the evolutionary ladder, taking great pleasure and benefiting from their ever increasing intelligence. Yet, in all the millennia's of its silent existence within the bodies of host after host, the being rarely took on any females unless it was forced by circumstances of survival—after which it quickly reverted to another male. For reasons it did not realize nor contemplate, its preferred mode of existence continued through from the primates to Homo-Sapiens, and up to modern man.

      The being’s intellect and understanding of its powers grew faster once it began to possess human hosts as they wandered throughout their small, very limited world during countless generations. It remained in the background of its hosts, never interfering with their lives even after it finally learned that it possessed the capacity to do so. It enjoyed this obscure, vicarious existence of a parallel life without any intervention, and whenever a new host was found unsuitable for any reason, particularly when suffering from any serious physical disability, it switched to another quickly, never harming the discarded one. Over the ages, as its intelligence expanded, the being became ever more refined in dealing with its human environment, finally becoming just as human as its new hosts had become through their evolution and learning processes abilities.

      Throughout most of its existence the entity, being highly curious once developed to such a stage, learned about all of its hosts' various driving forces and retained all of their memories, particularly so once it reached modern times.

      Chapter One

      Stanley Petersen returned from lunch at a famous restaurant in Washington DC, where many old friends had thrown him a retirement party that was to be culminated that evening at the Marine Barracks at Eighth and I Streets. It had been his practice for nearly fifty years to go to the Marine Barracks for the Friday Evening Retreat Parade whenever he

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