Political Thriller

This is a new genre for Viveca and me - a political and espionage thriller.

"The Candidate: Made in China"

Adrian Mercer is everything America wants in a president—charismatic, brilliant, disciplined, and seemingly destined for greatness. But behind his rise lies a secret decades in the making. Born through a carefully orchestrated surrogate pregnancy, protected by birthright citizenship, enhanced through cutting-edge genetic engineering, and groomed from childhood by powerful interests in China, Adrian is not merely a candidate. He is a project.

As he ascends toward the White House, journalists, intelligence officers, and political opponents begin uncovering fragments of a conspiracy that reaches across continents and generations. Is Adrian Mercer a patriotic leader, or the ultimate foreign investment in American power?

A gripping political thriller of ambition, identity, loyalty, and deception, The Candidate: Made in China explores what happens when the perfect president may have been manufactured rather than elected.

"I know what I was made for." — Adrian Mercer

The Candidate

Made in China

The Candidate: Made in China is a political thriller about the most dangerous weapon a rival nation could place inside America—not a missile, not a virus, not a stolen file, but a bioengineered man with birthright citizenship. Tutored and trained in China to be the perfect presidential candidate.

Adrian Michael Mercer looks like the perfect...

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The Last Quiet Hour: An espionage thriller involving MI6, MI5, and the CIA

Daniel Vale has spent eleven years living with one mistake: leaving Leila Farhadi behind in Tehran.

MI6 told him the extraction had been compromised. The reports were filed, the procedures reviewed, the deaths accepted, and the institution moved on. Vale never did. He carried the guilt into a long career of covert operations, classified...

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