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The Not-So-Distant Future Series
In a near-future dystopia, citizens’ thoughts are recorded by Choice machines, and their actions might not even be their own. Chicago CSI Lieutenant Kerry O’Malley and her team race to stop a collapsing global shadow government from permanently erasing mankind’s free will.
In a world of dwindling civil liberties, Kerry O’Malley and her husband, controversial author Connor O’Malley, immigrated to the United States a decade ago to publish Connor’s politically-charged science-fiction book. Kerry has since become Lieutenant of the Chicago Police Department’s Crime Scene Investigation team. She utilizes the Choice system, a computer network that registers the thoughts of willing citizens, to keep the city safe. Most believe that the Choice system has allowed America to retain freedoms absent elsewhere in the world. Connor is a skeptic, and his outspoken views have led to his success. Now wealthy, the O’Malleys live in comfort and freedom with their two children in an idyllic Chicago suburb.
One autumn day, their comfort is shattered. While Kerry delves into an organized crime plot with national security implications, the O’Malleys are violently attacked. The subsequent investigation leads Kerry to an enemy she has long worked to eradicate. A meeting between the crime boss and the CSI Lieutenant leads to more questions than answers. This exciting, action-packed adventure is the first installment of the O’Malley family’s epic efforts to save the very idea of liberty.
A year has passed since the events that introduced the O’Malley family to a complex, sinister plot involving the Choice system. Now, unexplained disappearances of politically conservative families shake Chicagoland. Evidence left at each scene points to the possibility of extraterrestrial abduction. Lieutenant Kerry O’Malley leads Chicago’s Crime Scene Investigation team in poring over the evidence and sticking to the facts amidst alien abduction media hype.
When the kidnappings are finally pinned on an ultra-wealthy man with a personal vendetta against Connor O’Malley, the team launches a manhunt. The kidnappings continue, now involving children similar to Connor and Kerry’s son Aedan. While searching for the elusive perpetrator, Kerry and Connor find their family in the crosshairs of their enemies yet again. Kerry’s team races to uncover the true purpose of the high-tech kidnappings, and begin to unravel a complicated conspiracy. Kerry’s view of Choices is changed forever in this next installment of the “Not-So-Distant Future” Series.
On Kerry O’Malley’s first day at her new job, America reels from the worst terror attacks on US soil in decades. Rumors of war abound as Kerry’s new and old teams unite to investigate. Evidence points to a concerted effort between unlikely criminal allies and the missing tech mogul Corbin Setag. The O’Malley family again goes into protection as new threats emerge. Meanwhile, Kerry’s mysterious brother Neil disappears. A well-connected, secretive Group of Concerned Citizens approaches Kerry offering critical, high-level intelligence. Kerry embarks on a daring mission to cripple Setag’s supercomputer 289 using an unusual weapon. In this thrilling third chapter of the series, the O’Malley family begins to unwind the mystery of Choices, the increasing prevalence of children like Aedan, and what is so very wrong with the world.
The pursuit of a presumed serial killer in Chicago leads Kerry O’Malley and her team to discover a plot by Russian insurrectionist Mikhail Kovanov to embroil the world in a global war. Just two months after the worst attack on US soil in recent history, another significant strike occurs in Washington DC. Kerry’s team investigates the alliance of the Russian psuedopolitical party Shishka and anti-government crime organization Diablo to build a bioweapon capable of controlling minds. Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jack Duncan captures and interrogates a man who reveals that the greater threat to the FBI may lie within its own walls. Meanwhile, Kerry embarks on an overseas mission sponsored by the enigmatic and powerful Group and supposedly organized by her brother, Neil. From country to country, Kerry is exposed to confusing pieces of evidence that point to corruption and subterfuge in the institutions she was supposed to trust. Furthermore, a bill is set to come before the Senate that would revolutionize the American healthcare system and begin an effort to privatize it again. Simultaneously, Connor O’Malley’s Renaissance Movement leads to a landmark Supreme Court victory for his political allies. Despite Connor’s soaring popularity ahead of the US elections, he and his family are shepherded off to a remote, uncharted island for protection by the Group. He questions whether the high-end, exclusive resort is simply a fancy prison. Despite being continents apart, the O’Malley family and their closest friends face similar challenges as they strive to stop the genius strategist Kovanov and his pawns from setting the world on fire.
Political icon Connor O’Malley and his family must fight for survival on an island where the Group placed them for their protection. Heavily outgunned and crippled by an EMP, the Group’s charges band together and attempt to retake the island from an invading force. Also caught in a precarious situation, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jack Duncan finds himself piloting a hijacked commercial plane. In the company of one of the hijackers, he embarks on a mission to stop a shipment of the mind-control bioweapon from falling into enemy hands. With CSI Detective Niki McAllister’s help, he launches an investigation to root out the mole in Chicago’s FBI field office and restore trust among their senior leadership. Meanwhile, FBI Special Agent in Charge Kerry O’Malley and her brother Neil have fled Russia at the onset of a civil war, and now find themselves in a near-apocalyptic postwar neutral zone. Their way out seems to be through a secret Group prison. As they converge on their hopeful escape, Kerry is introduced to knowledge about the Group that shatters her perception of the world and her role in it. In this latest novel, the O’Malley family uncovers critical knowledge about the global conspiracy that has been surreptitiously intertwined with their lives.
A series of copycat crimes end in absurd messages meant specifically for Chicago’s FBI Special Agent in Charge Kerry O’Malley. Just as a direct connection to Kerry’s brother is uncovered, Kerry falls seriously ill. Neil secludes her in a secret Group facility and forges a desperate alliance to provide her with life-saving treatment. However, the sacrifice of his most valuable asset may be her only hope. A child with a neural connection to the Choice system was at the center of Neil’s plan to unravel the Group’s global conspiracy. As he scrambles to salvage his life’s work and faces morally ambiguous, heartrending decisions, Russian insurrectionist Mikhail Kovanov escapes captivity and begins to destabilize the fragile peace that had quieted the world. Civil unrest erupts and war with China looms. The front-running US presidential candidate Reilly McGuinty is targeted for assassination with cutting-edge Group technology. Alliances are forged between demagogues, ideologues, and ruthless mercenaries. While the world teeters on the brink of mutually assured destruction, Kerry struggles for survival and Neil fights to secure freedom from permanent destruction.
After months in hiding, Agent Kerry O’Malley makes a daring escape back to America with the help of Agent Jack Duncan. In doing so, they become international fugitives, hunted by law enforcement but more importantly by the Wizard’s forces. America stands on the precipice of a new political era with the election of Reilly McGuinty, who offers Connor O’Malley a position in her administration. In a final effort to retain his power, the Wizard holds nothing back in lashing out at the O’Malley family and their allies. Undeterred despite his devastating attacks, they rush to execute the final steps of Neil’s plan. Meanwhile, children who were captured by the Wizard and programmed to operate like Amber become aware of the struggle to end his reign. As they choose sides and wage a secret war with each other, Aedan O’Malley is placed in mortal danger. Kerry finally realizes the scope and worldwide impact of Neil’s strategy to restore natural law to the world. The future of mankind’s free will hangs in the balance in this thrilling conclusion of the Not-So-Distant Future Series.
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