Helena is from eastern Europe, a victim of the sex trafficking business. She was sent to Israel, but she revolted and in the process was noticed by an internal security agent as being pretty darn resourceful. She gets recruited and becomes a valued asset at getting sensitive information, especially between the sheets. Her current assignment is an uber rich Canadian/American Pierre Damien. She is to get passwords to Damien's computer so that when the Mossad clones the hard drive, they can learn his plans.
You see, Damien is not only sinfully wealthy, he is also a diplomat with the UN and part of the most powerful and secretive arm of the UN, the Secretary General's Senior Management Group (SMG) as well as the head of the Thomas Malthus Society . . .
. . . (consider them to be code for the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission)
It's fall in New England. Perfect time for Scot Harvath and his main squeeze Lana to take in some fall colors. Scot's not much on vacations, but anything for Lana. Until the Old Man calls.
Reed Carlton is his boss. And (as usual) Reed has an assignment that only his best operative can handle. Lana ain't happy. This medical humanitarian organization has a clinic out in nowhere, Congo. A video has surfaced showing the clinic has been assaulted, is now abandoned with what appears to be a mass grave out back. So Scot hustles off to do the necessary recon. He joins up with some UK mercs and a doc with the organization.
Once they (finally) arrive, the clinic is indeed empty. But it's been scrubbed clean. Not even any bullet holes in the walls. Behind is that mass grave, still smoldering. And a nearby village has been wiped clean except for a lucky man and a boy. From the graves and from an unhappy commander of a Congo revolutionary group, the doc on the mission obtains tissue and fluid samples. Diagnosis:AHF
African Hemorrhagic Fever
Ebola's pissed off older brother on a 'roid rage
Harvath tracks down the team that killed everyone at the clinic and kidnaps the leader. Operating under a 'by any means necessary' edict, Harvath learns that the orders came down from Damien's groups. All the rhetoric about a 'new world order' is being enacted.
What do they want? Try this: decrease the world population from 7 billion down to 500 million and then control reproduction, redistribute wealth (but not from them!), eliminate personal rights in exchange for social duties, bypass current governments to dismantle the concept of nation states and national sovereignty, make the UN the sole worldwide authority, plus a few other minor items. The first item of business is to reduce the global population by a mere 6.5 billion.
The SMG has figured out how to make AHF airborne; weaponized essentially. To spread the disease, they offer to cover all expenses for a bunch of dirt poor sub-Saharan Muslims to do their obligatory hajj to Mecca. But of course, the pilgrims must get various public health shots so that Saudi Arabia will admit them. And one of the shots is the weaponized AHF. In Mecca, they unwittingly expose thousands of other pilgrims. They are then brought back to Africa where they were to have their symptoms 'treated' at the aforementioned clinic. All those thousands of newly infected pilgrims now return home, with symptoms, and the disease starts to spread rapidly around the world. Once the pandemic is publicized, worldwide panic becomes the new norm.
In most of Thor's earlier books, Harvath is taking on renegade governments, religious zealots, terrorists, criminals, and other sorts of n'er do wells. The enemy this time is a group with unlimited resources intent of bringing about this 'new world order' we hear being discussed by groups like the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission. Only here, rhetoric has been traded for implementation. These people are so "convinced of their clarity of vision and moral superiority" that they decide to do what's necessary to pave the road toward their vision of a utopia.
But despite all their planning, there are some really smart people of action who feel otherwise. Thor takes no prisoners when the plan is to deconstruct what has been built over the millennia. This is kick butt, pedal to the metal, ultra high stakes poker and Thor is just the person to deliver the knock outs. While there are plenty of folks who do not agree with Thor's politics (which are evident, front and center), I seriously doubt that anyone will say that Thor isn't one helluva storyteller who sits in the front row of the Thriller Class of authors. Not to mention that 15 for 15 on the NYTimes bestseller list; a pretty good endorsement.
East Coast Don
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