Daniel L. Carter
Auteur de The Unwanted
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Œuvres de Daniel L. Carter
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- Nom légal
- Carter, Daniel
- Date de naissance
- 1969-04-20
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Rochester, New York, USA
- Études
- Elim Bible Institute
Hudson Valley Bible School - Professions
- author
- Relations
- Margo Carter (wife)
- Organisations
- OakTara Publisher
- Courte biographie
- DANIEL L. CARTER, born and raised in New York State, has always enjoyed Sci-Fi and Fantasy stories. Some of his favorite authors include Robert Aspirin and Stephen R. Donaldson.
Having acted in plays, such as Diary of Anne Frank and Damn Yankees, Daniel soon turned to writing skits and short plays, as well as directing. After studying at Elim Bible Institute and Hudson Valley Bible School, the desire to blend fantasy and faith drove him to begin a journey on finding a story that would do just that.
The Unwanted, Book One in The Unwanted Trilogy, opens up a new world of Science Fiction and Fantasy that will appeal to many ages. Daniel is currently working on Book Two, Children of Anak. He and his wife, Margo, reside in Western New York.
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What made the X-men and the Fantastic Four the way they are? Wouldn't you like to know the beginning?
I like to know the details of things. I like to know the 'why are the characters this way'. I ask questions. A lot of them. And Daniel Carter has done a great job answering those questions. Telling us what transpired in a believable and intriguing way, he introduces us to five heroes in the most unlikely of places. Babies. Yes, the Unwanted are - babies. In the age of animal testing, one mad scientist takes it too far and performs horrible experiments on babies, with the intention of killing them when he's finished. Everything is working perfectly until two nurses spirit five of his subjects out before he can dispose of them. The hunt is on...
Mr. Carter, I'm quite ready to read the next book!… (plus d'informations)
I like to know the details of things. I like to know the 'why are the characters this way'. I ask questions. A lot of them. And Daniel Carter has done a great job answering those questions. Telling us what transpired in a believable and intriguing way, he introduces us to five heroes in the most unlikely of places. Babies. Yes, the Unwanted are - babies. In the age of animal testing, one mad scientist takes it too far and performs horrible experiments on babies, with the intention of killing them when he's finished. Everything is working perfectly until two nurses spirit five of his subjects out before he can dispose of them. The hunt is on...
Mr. Carter, I'm quite ready to read the next book!… (plus d'informations)
Nurses Janet and Michele are initially excited about their high-paying side job at a research facility. Then the weirdness of the situation starts to bother them. The constant administration of unknown drugs to pregnant women who don't speak English and the creepy wheelchair-bound Dr. Tibon Scharf soon make Janet and Michele wary of their employer.
Meanwhile Nick, an FBI agent investigating a series of deadly explosions that kill mysterious groups of infants, learns that the people involved are using genetic engineering equipment. Despite his efforts, he is always one step behind Tibon and his ruthless assistant Liz Bolan. Tibon destroys his latest research facility and moves before the FBI catch up, but this time the clean up job is botched. Janet and Michele narrowly escape the explosion meant to kill them and five experimental infants. Knowing Tibon has law enforcement connections, the women flee with the babies to a remote cabin on the Oklahoma ranch of Janet's uncle, Leigh Barrus.
Uncle Leigh shelters them secretly after they explain the danger. The babies (three boys and two girls) are named Sampson, Marcus, Zack, Angie, and Anna. They soon exhibit rapid growth and alarming powers of intellect and strength as the years go by. Tibon continues with his genetic engineering experiments while Nick's FBI career flounders into failure.
As I read the novel, Carter's writing built genuine feelings in me for the fugitive family. They grapple with money problems, nosey redneck neighbors, and their difficult state of isolation. Uncle Leigh was the star of the novel for me. His gentle, loving, and protective influence provided everything a person could want in a father figure. The weirdly advanced children love and respect him too, and the influence of his Christian values has a positive effect on the five children, whose lives have special challenges.
Although a story with genetically engineered super children is not particularly original, the Christian upbringing did provide an interesting twist. Prayer gives the children a coping mechanism for their intense emotional issues, and belief in a higher power helps them see beyond their personal problems. However, when Anna tells Uncle Leigh that God speaks to her, even he is incredulous at first. Yet there is no denying her intense psychic abilities, and Uncle Leigh accepts that perhaps she does have a superior connection with God.
The accelerated development of the children is presented in a reasonable and interesting fashion. The stupid and often insensitive boyish excesses of the Marcus, Zack, and Sampson feel real, and the girls are charmingly bossy and reliable.
The Unwanted is a well paced novel that never gets slow. Something is always going on. It has plenty of tense gunfights, super power battles, tranquilizer darts, helicopters, missiles, explosions, and the threat of poison gas.
About my only problem with the novel was the cliche nature of the scenes involving FBI agent Nick. They read like any crime drama you've ever seen. I'm not saying they are badly written. Carter has a smooth flowing style that lets a narrative unfold with great clarity. But Nick and his law enforcement fiascoes lacked originality. Why does the law enforcement character always have to be divorced, obsessed with a case, and driven to drink? Although this character annoyed me, he does not dominate the novel. The majority of the novel is very engaging, and the developing young super heroes are sympathetic and likable.
As the first in a trilogy, The Unwanted sets up a great foundation for further adventures with characters whose origins have been thoroughly explained. The Unwanted markets itself as a novel for all ages, and I agree. As an adult I found it to be intelligent reading, and I think that teens would find much to appreciate as well. My bottom line opinion is that The Unwanted reads like you are watching a Hollywood blockbuster.… (plus d'informations)
Meanwhile Nick, an FBI agent investigating a series of deadly explosions that kill mysterious groups of infants, learns that the people involved are using genetic engineering equipment. Despite his efforts, he is always one step behind Tibon and his ruthless assistant Liz Bolan. Tibon destroys his latest research facility and moves before the FBI catch up, but this time the clean up job is botched. Janet and Michele narrowly escape the explosion meant to kill them and five experimental infants. Knowing Tibon has law enforcement connections, the women flee with the babies to a remote cabin on the Oklahoma ranch of Janet's uncle, Leigh Barrus.
Uncle Leigh shelters them secretly after they explain the danger. The babies (three boys and two girls) are named Sampson, Marcus, Zack, Angie, and Anna. They soon exhibit rapid growth and alarming powers of intellect and strength as the years go by. Tibon continues with his genetic engineering experiments while Nick's FBI career flounders into failure.
As I read the novel, Carter's writing built genuine feelings in me for the fugitive family. They grapple with money problems, nosey redneck neighbors, and their difficult state of isolation. Uncle Leigh was the star of the novel for me. His gentle, loving, and protective influence provided everything a person could want in a father figure. The weirdly advanced children love and respect him too, and the influence of his Christian values has a positive effect on the five children, whose lives have special challenges.
Although a story with genetically engineered super children is not particularly original, the Christian upbringing did provide an interesting twist. Prayer gives the children a coping mechanism for their intense emotional issues, and belief in a higher power helps them see beyond their personal problems. However, when Anna tells Uncle Leigh that God speaks to her, even he is incredulous at first. Yet there is no denying her intense psychic abilities, and Uncle Leigh accepts that perhaps she does have a superior connection with God.
The accelerated development of the children is presented in a reasonable and interesting fashion. The stupid and often insensitive boyish excesses of the Marcus, Zack, and Sampson feel real, and the girls are charmingly bossy and reliable.
The Unwanted is a well paced novel that never gets slow. Something is always going on. It has plenty of tense gunfights, super power battles, tranquilizer darts, helicopters, missiles, explosions, and the threat of poison gas.
About my only problem with the novel was the cliche nature of the scenes involving FBI agent Nick. They read like any crime drama you've ever seen. I'm not saying they are badly written. Carter has a smooth flowing style that lets a narrative unfold with great clarity. But Nick and his law enforcement fiascoes lacked originality. Why does the law enforcement character always have to be divorced, obsessed with a case, and driven to drink? Although this character annoyed me, he does not dominate the novel. The majority of the novel is very engaging, and the developing young super heroes are sympathetic and likable.
As the first in a trilogy, The Unwanted sets up a great foundation for further adventures with characters whose origins have been thoroughly explained. The Unwanted markets itself as a novel for all ages, and I agree. As an adult I found it to be intelligent reading, and I think that teens would find much to appreciate as well. My bottom line opinion is that The Unwanted reads like you are watching a Hollywood blockbuster.… (plus d'informations)
Article first published as Book Review: The Unwanted by Daniel L. Carter on Blogcritics.
The Unwanted begins with a series of bombings, which include children in the death toll; the FBI is investigating them. At each scene, it is the deaths of the five children, always five, which weighs heavily on Nick Catlin’s conscious. He is the lead agent on the case and is disturbed to find children involved in any way. Why always five and why include children at all? Nick intends to find the underlying cause of these bombings, and even as he is talking to his partner, they have to respond to another scene. This is an extremely new bombing, and something has happened, while almost everything is the same as in the other scenes, there are two woman from the group that have disappeared, as well as the children, all five of them. As they arrive at the new scene, the site is not as organized; the job appears to be hurried and seems to lack the finesse of the other bombings. One of the bodies recovered is that of a police officer, bringing even more problems into play. How far does the information leak go, will they be able to control the information in order to catch a killer?
Nick and his team race against time hunting a cruel and sadistic killer, murdering both witnesses and children to hide his motives. Nick is in deep, it is imperative to find the answers to these killings and to stop the murder of the children. Their suspect is a geneticist, full of anger towards the U.S. He blames them for the death of his family, and while he remains hidden, his henchmen are out creating havoc and destruction. What is it about the children, that put them at risk of this killer?
The FBI are operating against a cold and calculating mind, with knowledge of their every move, able to cut them off at every opportunity. Nick finds himself drawn into the madness, struggling with his own demons, and as he begins to see improbable things, he worries that his very investigation is at risk. Is what he has seen an experiment or has Tibon Agha, their suspect, engineered a mutant army?
As he tracks down the missing children, he finds more then he has bargained for. The children have far exceeded the size and abilities of other children their age and there is something both unnerving and yet special about all of them. Each has developed different characteristics and abilities. They have been raised with God and have a heavy belief in prayer, and when they are finally found by Tibon and his crew, they must come together and rely on each other and their belief in God, to not just save themselves and their adopted families but the country itself. In addition, as Nick fights for his own life, he too must rely on the help of these children, for it will take skills and abilities, far above what he and his team are capable of to stop Tibon and his mutations.
In The Unwanted, Daniel L Carter has developed the very world of today, yet covered it with a sheen of other worldliness, seeming to set up a futuristic place rife with possibilities and powers. The characters are well developed each with characteristics that are unique and all with an old-fashioned sense of love and caring. Their mutations put them at risk and yet they have survived far longer then predicted. It is the current consensus that they have only lived to their current age due to their closeness and belief in both God and prayer. Religion is a part of this story, and woven throughout the entire frame of the story structure; the work would not survive without it. It is not pushy or an effort to foist religion, it is just an intricate part of the story giving it a unique edge. The children are charismatic and extremely different in their personalities, and each has a strength that makes them unique. The nurse Janet Renard, one of the two that escaped with them becomes their pseudo mother, with her family their extended family. This is a well-written story, staying true enough to science that it somewhat plausible. Daniel's writing brings to mind the Maximum Ride series, by James Patterson. The characters come off the page and are just young enough to be lovable. They have problems and phobias as well as anger and other personality traits that make them much like you and me.
Daniel has created a wonderful story full of surprises and human emotions. The book is fast paced and interesting, often leaving you tense and uncertain, but always rooting for the children, hoping they can overcome the hardships they endure as their bodies begin to change. He takes a page out of science to create a fiction that one day may actually be one of our headlines, and while you feel uncomfortable at how the children came to be what they are, they did not choose to be this way, and you are with them, feeling their dreams and really liking their character and personalities. This story is unique and the characters solid making a strong foundation for a faith based science fiction. This is a truly remarkable story.
This was received as a free e-book from the Author. All opinions are my own based off my independent reading and understanding of the material.… (plus d'informations)
The Unwanted begins with a series of bombings, which include children in the death toll; the FBI is investigating them. At each scene, it is the deaths of the five children, always five, which weighs heavily on Nick Catlin’s conscious. He is the lead agent on the case and is disturbed to find children involved in any way. Why always five and why include children at all? Nick intends to find the underlying cause of these bombings, and even as he is talking to his partner, they have to respond to another scene. This is an extremely new bombing, and something has happened, while almost everything is the same as in the other scenes, there are two woman from the group that have disappeared, as well as the children, all five of them. As they arrive at the new scene, the site is not as organized; the job appears to be hurried and seems to lack the finesse of the other bombings. One of the bodies recovered is that of a police officer, bringing even more problems into play. How far does the information leak go, will they be able to control the information in order to catch a killer?
Nick and his team race against time hunting a cruel and sadistic killer, murdering both witnesses and children to hide his motives. Nick is in deep, it is imperative to find the answers to these killings and to stop the murder of the children. Their suspect is a geneticist, full of anger towards the U.S. He blames them for the death of his family, and while he remains hidden, his henchmen are out creating havoc and destruction. What is it about the children, that put them at risk of this killer?
The FBI are operating against a cold and calculating mind, with knowledge of their every move, able to cut them off at every opportunity. Nick finds himself drawn into the madness, struggling with his own demons, and as he begins to see improbable things, he worries that his very investigation is at risk. Is what he has seen an experiment or has Tibon Agha, their suspect, engineered a mutant army?
As he tracks down the missing children, he finds more then he has bargained for. The children have far exceeded the size and abilities of other children their age and there is something both unnerving and yet special about all of them. Each has developed different characteristics and abilities. They have been raised with God and have a heavy belief in prayer, and when they are finally found by Tibon and his crew, they must come together and rely on each other and their belief in God, to not just save themselves and their adopted families but the country itself. In addition, as Nick fights for his own life, he too must rely on the help of these children, for it will take skills and abilities, far above what he and his team are capable of to stop Tibon and his mutations.
In The Unwanted, Daniel L Carter has developed the very world of today, yet covered it with a sheen of other worldliness, seeming to set up a futuristic place rife with possibilities and powers. The characters are well developed each with characteristics that are unique and all with an old-fashioned sense of love and caring. Their mutations put them at risk and yet they have survived far longer then predicted. It is the current consensus that they have only lived to their current age due to their closeness and belief in both God and prayer. Religion is a part of this story, and woven throughout the entire frame of the story structure; the work would not survive without it. It is not pushy or an effort to foist religion, it is just an intricate part of the story giving it a unique edge. The children are charismatic and extremely different in their personalities, and each has a strength that makes them unique. The nurse Janet Renard, one of the two that escaped with them becomes their pseudo mother, with her family their extended family. This is a well-written story, staying true enough to science that it somewhat plausible. Daniel's writing brings to mind the Maximum Ride series, by James Patterson. The characters come off the page and are just young enough to be lovable. They have problems and phobias as well as anger and other personality traits that make them much like you and me.
Daniel has created a wonderful story full of surprises and human emotions. The book is fast paced and interesting, often leaving you tense and uncertain, but always rooting for the children, hoping they can overcome the hardships they endure as their bodies begin to change. He takes a page out of science to create a fiction that one day may actually be one of our headlines, and while you feel uncomfortable at how the children came to be what they are, they did not choose to be this way, and you are with them, feeling their dreams and really liking their character and personalities. This story is unique and the characters solid making a strong foundation for a faith based science fiction. This is a truly remarkable story.
This was received as a free e-book from the Author. All opinions are my own based off my independent reading and understanding of the material.… (plus d'informations)
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 18
- Popularité
- #630,789
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 2
This book is incredible. Even if you are not a strong believer in the Christian aspect, it is worth reading. The genetics alone will intrigue you. The madman behind the experiments is someone psychologists would love to get their hands on! I look forward to books two and three in this trilogy. I want to see what happens with the children, how their abilities will affect them as they grow. How the madman will interfere with their lives.
Excellent book Mr. Carter. You have managed to integrate science and religion.… (plus d'informations)