Programmed Cell Death: a Sci-fi Revenge Thriller

by Jonathan Hendricks

The plot twists kept me reading into the night…

Adam Baker has everything—a winning smile, a beautiful family, a rewarding career with Big Pharma, and an old friend who wants him dead.

Fate hasn’t been kind to former high school football star AJ Garcia. With three dead-end jobs, a drug habit, and a drinking problem, it’ll be a miracle if he makes it to next year.

Dr. Mikayla Springer is the director of a world-class research facility, and she’s leading an international team of scientists on a mission to find the ultimate cure—a hypothetical genetic mutation that could rid the world of cancer forever.

Mikayla’s project needs a public face, and Adam’s background in fund-raising makes him the perfect candidate. But his hallucinations are getting worse—and they’re spilling into reality. Mysterious forces are at work, and AJ finds himself dragged into an international conspiracy. How are Adam and AJ connected to the cure? Will their reconciliation bring about the post-cancer world—or will the fate of humanity be sealed in blood?

PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH:
a Sci-fi Revenge Thriller.

Former best friends, born and raised in rural Minnesota, are reunited by a cruel twist of fate in this chilling story of atonement and transformation inspired by Crichton, King, and Lovecraft. There can be no clear winners in the morally corrupt landscape of Big Pharma lackeys and desperate underdog drop-outs.

Are you prepared to follow the evidence—no matter where it leads?

274 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 4, 2019

Reviews

[Jez · Rating 5 out of 5]

A cracking book. As much about 2 lives and how they turn out, often due to things outside of their control, as it is a scifi book or a thriller. Tightly written and compelling, it maintains an ominous momentum and throws in some genuinely surreal moments as well as having a passionate and angry humanist core.