The Devereaux Dilemma

In a future where religion and disease have brought social order to the verge of collapse, and where some humans have been biologically enhanced while others have been mechanically enhanced, the genetically enhanced secret agent Jeremiah Jones is ordered out of retirement and tasked with finding Walt Devereaux, a genius who is hiding from a government that wants to control and use him. It seems that Devereaux has created bio-weapons that could wipe out humanity. Is he really a dangerous man? Or is Jeremiah simply a pawn in a deadly game? Who can he trust? The nun who is sheltering Devereaux? Jeremiah's ex-partner and former lover Julianna, who once betrayed him and who also seems to be searching for Devereaux? The US Attorney General, who hopes to capture Devereaux in order to catapult himself to the presidency? Surrounded by questions and full of sorrow and regret over the kidnapping of his son four years earlier as well as the recent suicide of his wife, Jeremiah must battle both the genetically enhanced Escala and their sworn enemies, the mechanically enhanced Elite Ops in order to decipher the truth. Along the way, certain questions get asked: what does it mean to be human? When is force justified? What are the morals of atheism? But the questions never get in the way of the action, which races relentlessly toward the shattering climax. The Devereaux Dilemma is a thrill ride with an intellectual bent.