Genome, Inc.

In our near future, an oily sedan with a solar skin parks in front of a yuppie home. Two corporate agents exit the automated car, breach the laser-light fence, and pound on the front door. After a violent skirmish with the parents, they drive away with two preschool girls.

Matt Mallow, an intellectual misplaced as a construction worker, faces a similar foreclosure. He struggles to save his son, Damon, a talented violinist with a BMX, from the grip of this titanic corporation with quasi-governmental status.

Is this the consequence of permitting private ownership of human genes? After the US defaults in 2025, will this happen several painful steps later in the grim aftermath when we are vulnerable? This tumultuous drama, interwoven with riveting action, explores these questions. It offers a geopolitical forecast that is realistic, detailed, and haunting.