by Mark Alpert
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Epilogue
Author’s Note
Also by Mark Alpert
About the Author
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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THE ORION PLAN. Copyright © 2016 by Mark Alpert. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Alpert, Mark, 1961– author.
Title: The Orion plan: a thriller / Mark Alpert.
Description: First edition. | New York: Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin’s Press, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015039016 | ISBN 9781250065414 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781466872233 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Human-alien encounters—Fiction. | Extraterrestrial beings—Fiction. | Brainwashing—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Technological. | GSAFD: Science fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3601.L67 O75 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015039016
e-ISBN 9781466872233
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First Edition: February 2016