"Continuing Time - 01 - Emerald Eyes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moran Daniel Keys)

Unification War; he was raised in a world that still bore the scars of that war.
The America in which he was raised was an occupied country; there were more
Peaceforcers in the United States than police. The war was history already by
the time he was old enough to understand its causes. In classes he was taught
about its great battles; how after the Battle of Yorktown, the young Marine
Corps sergeant who was in command of what was left of the United States Marine
Corps forced the U.N. forces to withdraw into a neighboring city before he would
agree to surrender his forces. In agreeing to surrender, a young Marine named
Neil Corona produced the most memorable quote of the War: УWe will fry under
your goddamn cannon,Ф he said, Уbefore a single Marine will lay down his arms in
Yorktown.Ф
After that warТs end, the slow task of rebuilding began. France, alone among the
industrial nations of the time, emerged unscathed from the Unification War. In
the years that followed the war, it attained a position of preeminence among the
bodies that constituted the United Nations.
The gene pattern which produced Carl Castanaveras was not successfully
reproduced until April the eighteenth, in 2035, when a design which became Jane
McConnell was successfully imprinted upon a sterile egg. In creating her,
Suzanne Montignet localized three unique genes that Carl Castanaveras possessed
and no other living human being did. Jane McConnell was, aside from her gender,
his clone. She was the first and last instance in which Suzanne Montignet had to
resort to relatively clumsy cloning techniques to ensure that the gene complex
took properly. Johann MacArthur was brought to term late in 2036; unlike Jane
McConnell he was a true genie, assembled gene by gene until a design was found
that Suzanne Montignet approved. Six such others were born between 2036 and
2042.

In the year 2040, a man named Darryl Amnier was appointed to the position of
Prosecutor General to the Unification Council.
For over a decade the U.N. Bureau of Biotechnology Research, and the
Peaceforcers who controlled them, thought Carl Castanaveras a failure.
An interesting failure.
He seemed to be slightly stronger than his muscle mass should have warranted,
with greater endurance; but his muscle mass, even with physical conditioning,
was not exceptional. He moved with abnormal speed, and was emotionally unstable.
At the age of twelve, when puberty struck him with full force, Carl Castanaveras
awoke one day and found that he could read minds.
He let others know; specifically, a Unification Councillor named Jerril Carson,
who was at that time the Chairman of the Unification Council to supervise the
Bureau of Biotechnology Research. That was the first mistake. By the time the
other abilities began to manifest, he had learned enough to know that in
knowledge there is power. As he grew older, what would be known, more than a
thousand years later, as the Gift of the House of November, grew also. Carl
Castanaveras learned to hide that which he did not wish revealed.
Throughout history, slaves have always found this a useful skill.
They were slaves, no less so than the indentured hunters of twenty-third century
Tin Woodman, or the blacks of the early American South. After the first
shakeout, the Peaceforcers had three facilities where their experiments in
genetic engineering were conducted; following the death of pioneer genegineer
Jean Louis de Nostri, the facilities were consolidated under the control of