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Hybrid Hysteria - A Novel of Corporate Intrigue Both Holy and Diabolical, won the 2023 CIBA International Thriller Grand Prize. Dr. Therese Lauzon, a young university professor, comes to Fr. Dr. Charlie Cavanaugh, university chaplain and physics professor, with her concern that an automobile company is using its lithium batteries to sterilize liberals selectively, and that she is pregnant. She connects massive battery electromagnetic spikes to a rash of infertility and miscarriages along the Pacific coast, where GHEA cars have boomed in popularity. Therese's baby's father is GHEA's technician-on-loan to SUNY-Canton, who hastily left the university and has disappeared. Because of her research, she worries that working with GHEA batteries puts her baby at risk, and asks: "CAN ELECTRIC VEHICLES STERILIZE THEIR OWNERS?" Amidst careful investigation and deadly family ties, criminal factions and covert organizations wage war through knowledge and spy-craft. Multiple perspectives reveal new sides of each conspiracy as it begins to unravel. Behind the scenes, corporate executives and other actors from shadow groups each pursue their own agendas. Helping with the fight is the chaplain's Uncle Tony, a rules-bending mob boss, and GHEA's administrative secretary, a statuesque former Army Ranger, who ultimately finds herself needing to play the role of a Delilah. The mix gives readers a thriller that will take them through many diabolical twists and angelic turns, especially when an unknown, long-lost, and near-death relative is found, who turns the plot narrative on its head and solves a legal quagmire!
John Tortorella ready to fight the entire Calgary Flames team in a tiny hallway
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