In the seventh installment of the Omniscient: John the Genius series, titled Mad Beast, the stakes have shifted from global energy to the global stage as the "e;Cook Wave"e; threatens to paralyze the financial world. Set against the backdrop of May 1991, fourteen-year-old mega-billionaire Dr John Cook finds himself at the center of a media firestorm after a ground breaking auction, and the release of a treatment and cure for HIV/AIDS.With protesters and reporters swarming his Tulsa headquarters, John executes a tactical retreat. Hidden away in a place that feels like home, he is a neighbor to the Mad Beast he has sworn to cripple and destroy to protect the rest of the world. The USSR is a crumbling edifice but John knows exactly how to shatter it and pick up the pieces to secure the future.