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What If The Rich Used A Pandemic To Solve Climate Change
I wrote Z: Final Countdown years ago after reading The Hot Zone. It’s free through the 6th and in Kindle Unlimited.
As a fiction writer we always “what if”. So I what-iffed a pandemic.
How do you solve the problem of scarce resources and over-population with one devastating act?
Publishers Weekly: “The action is crisp with a great job of establishing a sense of reality — and real danger — by mixing current fears about killer diseases with a clear-eyed view of the Army.”
Assigned to escort SNN’s ace reporter Conner Young, who’s accompanying a US Army Special Forces A-team as part of the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Angola, former Green Beret Dave Riley finds himself undertaking his most dangerous and thrilling mission yet. In the war-torn jungles of Africa, the team becomes infected with a terrible disease known as ‘Z’, which kills within days and is now on the verge of an uncontrollable outbreak.
The shocking truth about the virus points to a mysterious diamond cartel based on the Namibian coast. In a desperate race against time, Riley and the assault team must secure the only antidote before it is destroyed.
Bookpage: “Take an original look at a simmering world hot spot, and generates a lot of suspense along the way. A…
