This book was written and published in the early 1970's and it is out of print. I had to secure a copy on Ebay. It is the book that inspired the 1970's series, "The Six Million Dollar Man." Test pilot Steve Austin is severely injured during a test flight and is put back together using bionic parts - fusing man and machine. The rest of the book is how Steve struggles to retain his humanity while performing missions for the OSI.

It's science fiction, so if you want a sci-fi, action/adventure escape, this is a book you might want to consider.

I liked the concept of the bionics and the action/adventure aspects of the novel.

Find out more about the author, Martin Caidin, because it sounds like he had quite an imagination, but what I found out about him, made sense. He has a military and government background and writes from that perspective.

Intrigued. I'm enjoying watching the Bionic Woman and 6 Million Dollar Man on demand.

I talked about him above. As for his writing, he was writing for his time - the 1970's. There are places his writing is a bit stilted, and awkward. It's very "male" oriented and he doesn't treat his female characters with enough respect.

It's a look into a culture that, perhaps, is a bit lost to us. As a reader, you can see how it inspired the Bionic Woman and Bionic Man series.

The book tells a solid story and Steve's journey, from human, to cyborg, to grab hold of his humanity and retain it is a solid, emotional story.

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