GLOBAL CONFLICT BATTLES INNER TURMOIL ASMICHAEL CROW TRIES TO MAKE SENSE OF THEVIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION.CORPORATE POWER PLAYS AND THE SECRETAGENDA OF WORLD GOVERNMENT'S ARE THEPUPPET MASTER STRINGS THAT ENTANGLE HIM.Just an ordinary citizen, leading an ordinarylife, Michael Crow finds himself at the centre ofcivilisation in total meltdown. The neighbourhoodhas gone mad. The city has gone mad. And theworld has gone mad.In the middle of it all, are the victims, the ordinarypeople. They are bashed, raped, pillaged andmurdered. Entire countries suffer the same fateas world governments scramble to divide andcontrol the remaining natural resources, includingthe vast reserves of human body parts.From Australia to Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China and Korea, we see how greed bringshumanity to its knees, for the final showdown. Butnot before Crow unleashes his grand solution.Gone are the days of up close and personalwarfare, Crow directs his invisible gene alteringwarriors from the comfort of his observatorycommand console, perched high on a stormravaged cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.But the price Crow pays for saving the world is notjust his life, it's his soul...And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall."Gripping storytelling, frighteningly realistic andultimately unnerving as the boundaries of thriller/horror/science are pushed to new limits. Moveover Dan Brown and Michael Crichton, there's anew a kid in town."H A R D R A I NA Techno-thriller(c) Manfred Pichler 2012