Echoes Through Distant Glass

Book excerpt: After decades of civil unrest, and following the devastating Cascadia earthquake, a consolidated law enforcement entity, the Northwest Regional Law and Safety Agency, has arisen… When cyber security defender Owen Dylan MacIntyre is tasked with investigating a potential terror threat to the Pacific Northwest, he crosses paths with the unpredictable and tragic Tomás Chen-Diaz and his brother Francisco. A powerful global plutocrat, Francisco is also a brilliant amateur biotech scientist who has many powerful associates and a few dark secrets—and he's ready to kill to keep these hidden. Rapidly, MacIntyre is drawn into Chen-Diaz’ web of international conspiracies, finding himself trapped in a world where science and technology invade the most sacred realms of the human heart and soul…a world where he’ll be forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about himself… if he survives. Book One of the Beyond Cascadia series, Echoes Through Distant Glass features unforgettable characters navigating a vivid, sharply-drawn vision of the near future, a future where sprawling dynasties manipulate the global economy…and where freedom of thought and expression have sunk to a barely guttering flame.