Sophisticated New Biotech Thriller Set in 2020 Brilliantly Blends Fact and Fiction
Current science, politics and technology drive an explosive story of biomedical innovation targeted against millions to achieve unthinkable social and political goals.Eva Johnson is back, in a prophetic story of biomedical innovation targeted against millions of innocent people to win an ugly struggle for cultural supremacy. Chillingly real, Revenge Matters is set in the first quarter of 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic begins its sweep across a bitter U.S. presidential election year. Although the action takes place with Covid emerging across the globe, the biomedical conspiracy is not based on the virus.
Eva Johnson, a beautiful artist, tech company founder and DHS undercover agent, takes on a global biotech conspiracy to use the human microbiome to achieve unthinkable social and political goals. In a world of immunologists, Chinese spies, billionaire industrialists, germfree mice and weaponized probiotics, she confronts Tom Stone, the talented, egotistical CEO of StoneBio to discover how his biotech breakthroughs are being funded and deployed.
As Eva races to find a way to stop the conspiracy before it’s too late, she struggles to recover from the earlier death of her husband—while coping with a new love interest, managing the Chinese and learning her latest roles as a venture capitalist and federal agent. Amid Chinese espionage, betrayals, deadly firefights and political intrigue, Eva chases the conspiracy to the highest levels of American business and government, unleashing a remarkable combination of technology, psychology, influence and force against wealthy, powerful opponents and overwhelming odds.
Revenge Matters is a tough, thought-provoking book that’s much more than a typical thriller. Beyond delivering a high-speed ride that builds to a torrent of surprises, Revenge Matters explores challenging social, political and technology issues that are affecting our future. The story is fiction, but the fact-setting and the underlying issues are real. Regardless of your politics or scientific acumen, it will keep you thinking and talking about the issues long after you have finished reading. The volume includes interesting discussion questions for book clubs.
This is the second book in the author’s Eva Johnson series. Like the first book in the series, Intentional Consequences, Revenge Matters is a sophisticated, prescient thriller and a compelling read. Both books in the series weave fact and fiction so tightly you’ll wonder where the facts end and the fiction begins.
If you like sophisticated political, medical and technology thrillers by authors who make you think—people like Dan Brown, Michael Crichton, Ken Follett, Stieg Larsson, John le Carré and Daniel Silva—you’ll be glad you read Revenge Matters.
About the Author
Charles Harris writes vivid real-world fiction that unleashes his characters into the emerging social, political, scientific and technological changes that are altering who we are and how we live. Driven by years of experience as a business lawyer, professor, investment banker and CEO of publicly traded technology and financial companies, he uses meticulous research, action-packed plot twists and suspense to bring his characters and settings to life. Harris has a degree in political science from the University of Florida and a law degree from the Harvard Law School. He is the author of Intentional Consequences, which stars Eva Johnson in a geopolitical cyber conspiracy thriller about the 2020 U.S. presidential election, where wealthy elites, Chinese interests and a social media company conspire to dominate the election and convert the U.S. to single party rule. He is also the author or co-author of several books on business negotiating as well as articles on technology, banking and the law. He lives in Florida with his wife.
