The Ebola Conspiracy

Gar Hart is a journalist with a gun. It might help him live long enough to break this story: Why would a billionaire's son mutilate his lips in a prison cell?The family blames mental illness and begs for privacy. Hart might have swallowed the PR line – if the people he'd quizzed about the incident weren't being murdered.Now Hart's scaling the fortress walls of a politically powerful group of business leaders. He aims to crack open the murky, global underworld of the super rich. But there's a catch.Hart has children, Alice and Hugo, and death threats are being delivered. And there's another problem.Hart finds it impossible to back down from a fight.Hart and his protégé Claire Styler link several mysterious deaths to the billionaire Charles East, his son, and a British banker. Blackmailers, mind-benders and assassins also have their snouts in the trough of a secret empire that's coming into focus.The journalists agree on two things: they're a long way from the whole truth; and they need to catch and expose it before it kills them – and dives back into the dark.Under Eden. Part 1: The Ebola Conspiracy is the first of a three-part series of thrillers that follow Hart and his colleagues across the world as they try to expose secrets of the wealthy and powerful.The author of Under Eden, Mark Furness, was a foreign correspondent who lived and worked in the US, the UK, Australia, and East Asia. He's also been a corporate spin doctor and political lobbyist. He claims his novel is a work of fiction. The good characters are based on real people. The black hats are purely fictional. Truly.