A mid-sized company in Canada is about to launch a new product that will revolutionize birth control. A megalomaniac is convinced that his way to stop overpopulation is the only way and he intends to discredit or stop the makers of Malecode. He has no bounds or barriers, no morals or sympathy for the inhabitants of Earth. He uses war and a substance that he has created to eradicate the population on a planetary scale, while gaining power and benefiting monetarily. Freddy Campbell, a "fixer" for companies and governments steps in. Working closely with his team and the powers that be, he attempts to thwart the advances of Vladimir, the super criminal who threatens the world. Can he stop him before he decimates the human population?
Malecode. A story of Business, Relationships and Overpopulation, set in the near future.
I was born in Toronto but moved north, with my parents and older brother to a farm when I was nine. I moved to Victoria BC in 1966 for a short time. Back in Ontario I started my own company and designed and built homes. After meeting my lady, we constantly moved a little north when civilization encroached. I retired from building in 2006 and from designing in 2019. I live with my lady of forty-two years, on a small farm in Central Ontario. We have two children. Our Daughter lives close by and our son resides in Scotland. I devote most of my time writing, doing a little artwork, working in my wood shop and playing with my collector cars. Life is good.
I thought the premise - of an aerosolized male birth control that was later weaponized - interesting. There were so many things that this book could had addressed - the controversy around the creation of such a thing, the effect of the weaponized version on society, etc.
In the end, though, this book was very much a "boys and their toys" type of read. Attractive people jet-setting around the world (and casually sharing their net worth), hopping into bed left and right, with the "girls" sent off while the "boys" talk. Technology out of the blue (Mars terraforming? Sentient AI?). A caricature of a villain: "The death count was three million. [He] decided not to use nukes any more as they killed children and animals." The characters had very little in the way of distinct personality (I couldn't keep most of them straight for that reason), and the main plotline seemed to get lost more than few times throughout.
All in all, an interesting premise, but not a book I could get into.
I got this ebook in a Goodreads giveaway. It happens in the near future and reads like a teenage boys wet dream. Nothing explicit, but everybody is hooking up, in and out of marriage. Everyone is goodlooking and most are very rich. Despite that the idea is good. the effect of easier male pregnancy prevention And then the effect on international organizations.