Intentional Consequences

Chillingly real politics, technology and threats drive an explosive geopolitical cyber conspiracy to sweep the 2020 presidential election and restructure American democracy. Brilliantly blends fact and fiction. Sexy...provocative...sophisticated...enlightening...a compelling read. An electrifying conspiracy story about what people and countries will do to manipulate political opinion in today's world of social media, political revenge and high stakes elections. If the Russians wanted Trump to win in 2016, imagine what the Chinese would do for a Democrat in 2020 with a rich American investor and a leading U.S. social media company on their side! If you read one book this fall ahead of 2020, make it Intentional Consequences! The plot is set in the present-day Democratic primaries, with Trump, Biden, Sanders, Warren, and other candidates in the background. The multi-faceted conspiracy is led by wealthy activist investor David Bernbach, who colludes with Chinese interests, a leading social media company and other Democratic elites. Bernbach's nemesis is Eva Johnson, a beautiful artist and tech company founder who's facing her own challenges with China and her husband, who runs a leading political data analytics firm. With help from Rakesh Jain, her husband's billionaire partner, who's on his own mission to reunite America, and Jain's wife, a nationally respected professor of American democracy, Eva teams up with a young newspaper reporter to unleash havoc on Bernbach's conspiracy campaign with results no one expects. Packed with rich details and convincing characters, the story has twists and turns, personal and political betrayals, dirty tricks, deadly assaults and virtual assassinations that will keep you guessing and hoping for a sequel. Intentional Consequences is a tough, provocative book that's much more than a typical thriller. Beyond delivering a rocket ride of a story that builds to a crescendo of surprises, it's an expose of the political tactics and technologies that are threatening American democracy. The story is fiction, but the fact-setting and the underlying issues are real. Regardless of your politics (the book takes shots at both parties), it will challenge your beliefs about social and political stereotypes and thrust you into the midst of the political, technology and social changes affecting American culture and democracy. By the last page, you'll be breathless from the plot and you'll never look at American politics the same way again. If you like politics and sophisticated thrillers by authors who make you think--people like Dan Brown, Michael Crichton, Ken Follett, John le Carré and Daniel Silva--you'll be glad you read Intentional Consequences. Your friends will be talking about this one. Includes great discussion questions for book clubs. Read it this fall, as the impeachment battles and the 2020 presidential campaign heat up! About the Author Charles Harris writes vivid real-world fiction that unleashes his characters into the emerging social, political and technological changes that are altering who we are and how we live. Fueled by years of experience as a business lawyer, professor, investment banker and CEO of publicly traded technology and financial companies, he uses meticulous research, action-packed plot twists and suspense to bring his characters and settings to life. Harris has a degree in political science from the University of Florida and a law degree from the Harvard Law School. He is the author or co-author of several books on business negotiating as well as articles on technology, banking and the law. He lives in Florida with his wife, Jeannie.