What if there was an antidote for drug addiction?

 

If brought to the market it could save millions of lives, revolutionize healthcare, eliminate drug-related crime and dramatically alter the global economy. But the drug cartels and Big Pharma will do anything to keep it off the market, even murder. And then there is the mysterious and dangerous Hermes.

 

THE ANTIDOTE is a topical thriller combing global politics, the narcotics trade, and the giants of the drugs industry. And when drug lords link up with Big Pharma, the formula is deception and murder.

 

In this first in the series of Jack Christian thriller novels, Jack and his wheelchair bound consulting partner, Maggie, get caught up in a web of murder and global greed by the elusive financial criminal Hermes, along with Jack’s investment banker step-brother, Alexi, and the beautiful and dangerous Russian business woman, Anastasia Karlovka.  And everywhere Jack turns, his friends end up dead. Can Jack survive and find a way to bring the antidote to the market?

 

This novel causes the reader to confront difficult questions:  What if there really were an antidote for drug addiction?  What risks would you take to get it onto the market?  Who should profit? What if an antidote of this magnitude would change the financial balance of the world? Does the end really justify the means? How far do the tentacles of the drug cartels reach into global politics and the financial powerbrokers?