A phone call wakes a man to warn of his imminent heart attack. A girl is murdered, pushed under a Tube train. A salesman dies from a lethal new virus. Underlying these events are a corrupt US corporation, a deviant London psychiatrist, a ruthless Federal agency, a greedy billionaire, and a brilliant but troubled technologist, each driven by ambitions and lusts which converge to a frighteningly possible conclusion.
Clever biotech thriller. A nasty virus outbreak occurs in the US, but technology is being developed to deal with it. The government uses the crisis to further it's own political agenda. As if!
I picked this up off of Amazon while it was free for one day only… the synopsis intrigued me, it sounded mysterious, and to be honest I thought this was going to run throughout the book, but unfortunately the part that intrigued me was explained pretty sharpish, and actually the book was totally different to what I expected. However I still enjoyed the read, being from a fairly technical background it was quite interesting to read a story with a systems developer at the forefront, a first for me. It also touched on both mental health, the future of medicine and the idea of government control of a population. All in all a good debut novel (I believe?) from this author.