Intentional Consequences
Charles HarrisTaking advantage of the current bitterness in U.S. politics, activist investor and political elite David Bernbach conspires with Chinese associates and a leading social media company to dominate the 2020 presidential election and usher in decades of single-party Democratic rule in the United States. As his strategy unfolds, he runs headlong into Eva Johnson, a beautiful artist and technologist who’s facing her own challenges with China and her husband, who runs a leading political data analytics firm. Supported by her husband’s billionaire partner and his wife, a nationally respected professor of American democracy, Eva teams up with a young newspaper reporter to unleash havoc on Bernbach’s conspiracy campaign with results no one expects.
Set in the early days of the 2020 presidential election cycle, in a world of artificial intelligence, fake news, facial recognition, altered images, drones, geopolitical hacking, privacy issues, social media manipulation and a loss of trust in our traditional socio-political institutions, Intentional Consequences rockets you forward through twists and turns, candidates and strategies, betrayals and double crosses, deadly assaults and virtual assassinations.
It’s the most revealing novel about political cyber espionage in years. Regardless of your politics, it will keep you guessing and thrust you into the middle of the technology, political and social changes that are threatening the future of American democracy.