Prof. Brandt Savage-grandson of the legendary action hero-is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin.
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Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, “Meed,” is demanding. She's also his captor.*
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Savage emerges from their intensive training sessions physically and mentally transformed, but with no idea*why*he's been chosen, and*how*he'll use his fearsome abilities. Then his first mission with Meed takes them back to her own training ground, where Savage learns how deeply entwined their two lives have been.*To prevent a new class of killers from escaping this harsh place where their ancestors first fought to make a better world, they must pledge anew :*Do right to all, and wrong to no one.