Provenance: a Transgenic Wars Novel

by Garet Wirth

As black smoke filled the airship’s first-class cabin, a jagged hole in its starboard side, John Ambrose had a feeling that his day was unlikely to improve. The scarred, old man that'd he'd been politely chatting with moments before the explosion bolted from his seat and rushed to the cockpit. He kicked down the flimsy door and yanked the dead pilot from her seat, taking the plummeting airship’s controls. “Yeh ain’t gonna die today, Johnny!” he shouted over his shoulder, a permanent shark-tooth grin plastered to his ravaged face. John wasn’t so sure. He also didn’t recall telling the old man his name.

Thus begins PROVENANCE, a sci-fi thriller and first novel in the Transgenic Wars series. When a panicked co-worker asks John Ambrose for help in investigating an illegal bioweapon, John is plunged into deadly wartime conspiracy. But while en route to help his friend, John is targeted by a disfigured, blood-thirsty assassin. Desperate to stay alive, he aligns himself with Perry – an old rogue with a dark past – and Veronica, a young doctor with strong ties to Perry. Together the trio fight impossible odds to stay alive and uncover the conspiracy – a conspiracy that will impact the natural world for eons to come.

461 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 19, 2015