Death on a Thin Horse

Baltimore City, the United Major States: Senator Cutter ("The Prophet"), follower of Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, founder of an extremist Christian church and a Presidential candidate, orders the release of a weaponized virus onto a city street. Boston, the Outlands: biogeneticist, Meara Flannagan, cures an SIV infected Rhesus monkey with a biotherapy that rewrites DNA in minutes. When her Corp reassigns the drug to her nemesis, Meara steals the formula and flees to the outlaw territories. Sebastian Gates is a saxophone player and hired gun ordered to hunt her. Success is assured until he realizes the job comes with complications. Complications like an attraction to Meara and evasion of a laser-toting assassin who can look like Jackie Onassis one day and Jackie Chan the next. The Senator, Meara and Sebastian are on a collision course- unwitting players in a zero-sum game where China and India will destroy anything and anyone in their path to possess what remains of the former United States. Meara and Sebastian are the only hope- for each other and for their country.