Silex Trilogy

When Cybio Incorporated announced that its project Crossover had developed the Silex chip, it took the scientific press by storm. The chip's unique coating allowed it to be implanted into the body without rejection. Driven by the Anthropos operating system, it was capable of growing neural connections to the nervous system and the brain. Advanced neural network programming gave the chip the ability to optimise these connections and potentially make changes to the body.The choice of Carsten Pietersen, the geeky lead project programmer, as the first recipient was not universally welcomed by the project team some of whom expressed concern about his maverick attitudes. That concern proved correct when a chance comment about curing his diabetes threw the entire project into turmoil and created a worldwide clamour for more information.Project leader Dr Mary McClusky discovered that Carsten had secretly installed a modified version of the full operating system minus many of the restriction designed to control the growth rate of neural connections. Cybio's CEO Mark Morgan decided that to salvage the multi-million dollar project they would develop a second-generation chip designed purely to treat diabetes. The only question was what to do with the increasingly uncontrollable Pietersen. He was walking around with the experiment inside him, but was he in charge of the chip, or was the chip in charge of him.On the other side of the world GPC, a new commercial power in the synthetic insulin industry, learnt of the Silex diabetes development with trepidation. Financially stretched, it could not tolerate the threat of more competition or a potential cure. Jan Pieses, GPC's chief executive called a shady underworld contact and arranged for the threat to be eliminated and the chip destroyed.The attempt to kidnap Carsten Pietersen and destroy the chip almost worked and resulted in him being shot. Amazingly, by the time he reached Cybio HQ, the wound had started to heal itself –the chip was ensuring its host survived. The Crossover team were shocked by this new development and so were the CIA who had been keeping an eye on the project and now decided Mr Pietersen would be better detained in one of its establishments. At first Mark Morgan resisted interference from the Agency but an impatient regional controller decided to snatch Pietersen with disastrous results which left the computer scientist walking the streets feeling threatened and very angry.Something had to be done to control the geek and prevent him from either leaving the project or being snatched by criminals, Governments or other vested interests. Drugging him, injuring him, physically restraining him seemed almost impossible as his raging metabolism could fight any threat.Finally, a solution was found. Trevor Elliott publishes novels under the pen name Elliott Trevor.Before retiring in 2011, Trevor had worked as a marketing and publicity consultant specialising in the high-tech sector, explaining the 'difficult to explain' bridging the gap between business and technologies such as laser and plasma profiling, photochemical machining and computer output microfilm. In the later years of his career, he focused on how companies could embrace sustainable manufacturing and responsible material sourcing.When he retired, he and his wife Moyra fulfilled a long-term ambition to travel around the Far East. Most of Crossover, his first full-length novel, was written in Thailand.The Silex TrilogyAl three novels in the Silex Trilogy are now published on all major E book sites including Smashwords.. The three books Crossover, Silex-M and Unrecoverable Error explore what happens when the lead programmer and first recipient of the Silex biocompatible chip decides to abandon the controlled research programme and upload a modified version of the complete operating system with minimal controls. The results are amazing but trigger the interest of an unsavoury businessman and the military.

Fifteen years after the incarceration of the brilliant young computer scientist in a secret cryogenics facility in San Diego, a new Regional Manager, Patrick Calloway discovers the identity of the occupant of cryo vat 75. Carsten Pietersen had been the first recipient of Cybio Inc.'s biocompatible Silex computer chip and the projects lead programmer who broke all the rules by installing his own modified version of the Anthropos operating system with startling results. His secret incarceration was almost forgotten after a tragic accident killed the small group of people who knew he was 'on ice'.Fascinated by his discovery Calloway learns that under the influence of the rogue operating system Carsten had become almost superhuman, absorbing information at astounding rates and optimising his body including curing his diabetes and developing the ability for self-healing even after being shot and stabbed. Shadowy members of the security forces became concerned that Carsten might leave Cybio to pursue his own agenda or even worse be captured by a foreign Government or criminal organisation. The solution was to secure him in cryostatis until they could work out how to control the scientist and his rogue chip.A decision is made to recover Carsten with the aim of persuading him to cooperate in the extraction of the unique operating system he carried and the development of a new military 'M' version that will exploit the endurance and self-healing properties of Carsten's chip. Dr Mary McClusky, Carsten's boss at Cybio and the focus of his affections is persuaded to help with recovering Carsten and in return, if the Silex-M project proved successful she could have the opportunity to find a way to disable his chip and return him to normal life.Everything went well with the recovery and Carsten, much to McClusky's surprise agreed to help the CIA develop the military version of his chip. However, he wanted nothing to do with Mary who he wrongly blamed for his incarceration. Within a few months, Carsten delivered the Silex-M chip and operating system, which was loaded into a special ops team who proved almost invincible in the field. One of the enhancements Carsten added was the ability to withstand severe injury in action and continue to function, with pain, blood loss and shock suppressed until the injured operative reached safety. Then the chip put them into a light coma whilst it implemented rapid healing. The amazing performance of the first team carrying the Silex-M chip came to the attention of Delta Force who wanted control of this project for its own ends. Delta Force Commander in Chief, Tom Carr, would stop at nothing to secure control, even if it meant clearing away some civilian obstacles.With Carr in charge, deployment of the Silex-M technology led to the formation of an elite Delta Force unit called DEFLATT1, who were the envy of all the military services. Then problems began to appear, firstly with Carsten's health and subsequently with DEFLATT1 team members who had been wounded in action and undergone rapid self-healing. Was this the result of the huge workload placed on Carsten and the massive overclocking of the soldiers endocrine system.In a separate development, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta Centre identified unusual clusters of Graves' disease or hyperthyroidism. A fluke observation linked these clusters to the roll out of the Silex-DB1 diabetes chip and a race began to discover what was happening and what level of threat this presented to the millions of recipients around the world.Were Carsten Pietersen's illness, the problems appearing within the Delta Force teams and the threat to the massively successful diabetes chip connected? With the Silex-M project classed as Top Secret and Carsten Pietersen officially dead, it fell to an adhoc team thrown together by circumstances, to find the answers before a worldwide epidemic, national scandal and uncon... Trevor Elliott publishes novels unde

Everyone thought the brilliant young computer scientist, Carsten Pietersen, had died but his Silex chip ensured its human host survived. Hijacking the body and mind of a rich entrepreneur kept Pietersen's chip/brain combination alive and provided an opportunity not only, for revenge, but also, the means by which it could expand the number of recipients of the rogue Anthropos XT operating system. If some of the USA's most brilliant young scientists became enhanced with the Silex chip and XT operating system any hope of controlling this technology would be over and the military, criminals and megalomaniacs across the world would soon seek to possess the enhanced powers it offered.Who would believe that a human being had been hijacked and his mind replaced by another? Someone had to stop this from happening and two ex-Cybio executives decide to act.This is the final book in the Silex Trilogy. Trevor Elliott publishes novels under the pen name Elliott Trevor.Before retiring in 2011, Trevor had worked as a marketing and publicity consultant specialising in the high-tech sector, explaining the 'difficult to explain' bridging the gap between business and technologies such as laser and plasma profiling, photochemical machining and computer output microfilm. In the later years of his career, he focused on how companies could embrace sustainable manufacturing and responsible material sourcing.When he retired, he and his wife Moyra fulfilled a long-term ambition to travel around the Far East. Most of Crossover, his first full-length novel, was written in Thailand.The Silex TrilogyAl three novels in the Silex Trilogy are now published on all major E book sites including Smashwords.. The three books Crossover, Silex-M and Unrecoverable Error explore what happens when the lead programmer and first recipient of the Silex biocompatible chip decides to abandon the controlled research programme and upload a modified version of the complete operating system with minimal controls. The results are amazing but trigger the interest of an unsavoury businessman and the military.