Tracks Book

A thriller about the passions that drive technology forward, and the potential of the surveillance society... In Boston, Global HealthCare Corporation is hoping to recover its fortunes with a new micro-chip technology which can eradicate disease - until Peter Miller, the brilliant but troubled architect of the program, quits his job and goes to work at a psychiatric hospital in London, helping develop a system to track dangerous patients. When a deadly threat to the US emerges, a covert Federal agency becomes involved, and Miller is caught up in a web of lies, love, insanity and murder - and finds he¿s opened the door to a frightening future. Synopsis Peter Miller, a computer genius, loves technology for its own sake, as a pure art form ¿ and as an escape from real life and its relationships. His employer, Global HealthCare, sees technology solely as a way to make money ¿ a great deal of money ¿ offering a way out of the corporation¿s financial trouble. Theodore Lamb, a wealthy investor, sees it as an opportunity for a financial killing ¿ and a possible means to achieve longevity, perhaps even secure eternal life, so he can remain with his younger mistress, Julia. While Gresham Taylor, a dubious psychiatrist, who¿s experimenting on a dangerous patient at a hospital in London, has much darker plans for the use of technology. When Miller leaves Global, disgusted with the corporation¿s refusal to recognize the value of his brain-child - the Tracks system, which can follow and monitor patients - he joins Taylor in London, and infiltrates Tracks into Taylor¿s project. But he hasn¿t escaped the long reach of Global and Lamb, and when a horrific biological threat arises in Texas, a secretive Federal agency begins to take an interest in his work. Becoming deeply involved with Taylor¿s research assistant, Sarah Ross, Miller uses Tracks to safeguard her - accidentally letting the Agency steal Tracks. And the Agency has the most sinister interest of all in what technology can do . . . About The Author Mike Gordon holds degrees in physics from the Universities of Cambridge and London. He was Lecturer in Computing at Charing Cross Medical School, where he was involved in the development of clinical information systems. Later he co-founded a pioneering software company which supplies advanced systems to premier medical centres around the world. He lives in Richmond with his wife, Erica, with whom he raised their four children. Tracks is his first novel.Read More