The Cure

Once, Africa belonged to the families that resided in Her vast lands. She belonged to the people who grew in the shadow of Kilimanjaro to the fertile plains of the Serengeti. By the late 20th century, Africa's minerals, crops, and oil was being ripped from the soil and sold across the world leeching European industrialists. The tribal culture was no longer a fit for the urban world as a man could no longer measure his wealth by the number of cows he owned but instead, he began to measure his wealth by the number of children he sired.

With promiscuity in the emerging cities and industrial human encroachment into the bush, so came the dreaded HIV virus.

A company in South Africa develops a vaccine, but when a plot is hatched by a Group of Six Old World European Families to change the vaccine and cripple the continent, Africa is on the brink of another catastrophe.

"The Cure" is a novel of biological espionage. A sinister group of mercenaries attempts to alter a vaccine that will result in the crippling of the African people. Can the Biotechnologist that helped developed the vaccine expose their plot and save the people?

Dr. Ken Peters is a PhD Int'l Economist as a senior executive working for several multinational companies worldwide assisting governments with critical analysis on Healthcare Policies, living & working for over 30 years in Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia. In 1997 he founded World Diagnostics Inc. (NASDAQ) focusing on infectious diseases for underdeveloped nations experiencing pandemic and endemic diseases. He has been highlighted in the Wall Street Journal, various healthcare journals, a recipient of Dx Health Care Awards, and noted in "Who's Who in American Entrepreneurs".
Since retiring, Dr. Peters has turned to write Biotechnology Thriller Novels, using his personal experiences from his time living overseas in underdeveloped nations where populations were experiencing a wide range of infectious diseases. Using the genre of Biotechnology, his novels are page-turners with the same pace as Michael Crichton uses medical or as John Grisham uses the law. His novels include Off Shore, The Cure, and most recently Cuba's Nuclear Pinata.
His fourth biotech thriller The Hajj Intercept is anticipated to be released in mid-2022. Dr. Peters is currently a visiting professor at the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs at Florida International University (US News & World ranked top 100 Universities) lecturing on Macroeconomic Government Policies and has been a distinguished guest scholar at the University of Shanghai lecturing on International Economic Development.