The Oracle Virus

An Exciting Journey Behind Today's Headlines

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Pub Date 10 Mar 2020 | Archive Date 01 Jul 2020

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What links cracking the Enigma Code and the genetic mutation of brain cells?

It’s 2020. Jack Kavanaugh and an Interpol team are ready to protect twenty world leaders meeting in Washington, D.C. But little do they know they're in for far more than they could ever imagine. 

Jack and his Interpol girlfriend, Annika, must figure out what a dangerous virus, a serial killing, a whale stranding, the kidnapping of twenty leaders and a massive hurricane all have in common before a demonic plot turns humans into flesh robots. 

The fate of humanity rests on their shoulders. They’re unaware that what threatens the Earth began with an assassination plot and the suicide of Jack’s grandfather. Plus a programmed mole is bent on killing Jack. A showdown atop the Washington Monument will decide if evil will rule the Earth. 

Can Jack and his team put the puzzle together?   

This book is ideal for any who love reading about what's behind today's headlines.

What links cracking the Enigma Code and the genetic mutation of brain cells?

It’s 2020. Jack Kavanaugh and an Interpol team are ready to protect twenty world leaders meeting in Washington, D.C...


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The Oracle Virus is a richly detailed novel that works as much as a thriller as it does an SF story, medical mystery and ecological catastrophe novel. As such, it is quite ambitious in scope.

The main character, Jack Kavanaugh, is a nanotechnology expert recruited for his skills as an undercover agent, to protect 20 statesmen and leaders during an important conference. He is also in the front line of tackling a serial killer whose arty displays of the dead bodies of prominent people hint either at a particularly vicious psychotic, or as the work of international terrorists. Then, there is a massive and mysterious storm, Little Boy, that channels world events in the form of mysterious debris and beaches several pods of whales, one that has apparently succumbed to a virus that nearly caused a pandemic just one generation ago.

Then in the middle of this apocalyptic storm, the political leaders disappear and it is up to Kavanaugh with the agent he befriends, Annika, to get to the bottom of all these converging mysteries in time.

The protagonist himself is something ng of an enigma, being seen in more places at the same time than one. His father Peter believes the virus they are up against may be a smart virus. Meanwhile, Jack's grandfather, also an agent, does under mysterious and scandalous circumstances. Even now, as with all heroes, this problematic aspect of his paternal line, means he has something to prove.

What could be the nature of the shadowy elite Kavanaugh and his co-workers may be up against.

Lovers of conspiracy theories and SF based on cutting-edge science should love this!

The editing, however, leads something to be desired, hopefully this will get proofed a little better the second time round.

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i really enjoyed that they used today's headlines to make a good scifi novel. I enjoyed the characters and the plot.

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