Synopsis      The Freya Project            Joel Paynell knows how to kill, thanks to the U.S. Government and Vietnam.  In thirty years, the only thing that’s changed is who pays him. But this time, there's a nasty little problem; a witness.   Teleconferencing tech Michael Rowe sees something he wishes he hadn't. Then the pretty cop he confides in winds up dead too -- in his apartment. The stakes go higher when Michael learns who the first victim was, who paid for the killing, and why.
There is nowhere to run in cyberspace.  To clear himself of a growing list of victims, Michael embarks upon a deadly game of cat and mouse that blurs the lines between the hunter and the hunted, reality and the virtual world.
Through cloak and disguise, Paynell pursues Michael from Australia to the United States, to Canada, and back to Australia, all the while covering his tracks and pointing murderous evidence squarely at his prey, luring Michael into his web.
The Freya Project exposes the dark side of the internet while showcasing today’s technology, until, in the end, Paynell learns there is nowhere to hide in cyberspace.

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Synopsis     SEOUL LEGACY, THE ORPHAN’S FLU       follows a North Korean infant kidnapped from the wife of Kim Jong-Il's favorite army captain.  The baby is taken to Seoul where  he is  adopted by unsuspecting wealthy Americans.  Too late, this child’s new parents and the world discover  he has been inoculated with a human-to-human strain of bird flu.  Pandemic follows the infant from Seoul to Seattle to Detroit, leaving hundreds dead, thousands sick, and millions quarantined      Once the newly elected American president learns the H5N1 strain has been weaponized, he prepares for unparalleled reprisal against North Korea.  Fighting breaks out among the 1.7 million men under arms on the Korean Peninsula.   Then, the world’s two largest armies are drawn to confrontation when China takes advantage of the chaos and invades Taiwan.  As these events are unfolding, Homeland Security teams up with the Treasury Department to follow a 40-year-old trail and a seemingly unrelated story.  That trail leads to an unholy alliance in the Philippines between a ruthless flesh trader and an al Qaeda splinter group called the Abu Sayyaf.  The two stories of war - man against man, and man against disease - are played out against the Korean conflict of 50-plus years.  It is the press that dubs it Orphan’s Flu, and the CDC in Atlanta that positively identifies Patient Zero, but it is the U. S. Treasury Department that discovers the Abu Sayyaf involvement, and how they have cleverly laid the blame on Kim Jung-Il’s doorstep in an effort to ignite what they pray will become WW-III 

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