Joy Ashe

Joy Ashe -pseudonym- Prescient Author of Gene Defense A Fictional Genetic Thriller taps into age-old conflicts of good versus evil - in this disturbing tale.

Quoted from Five-Star Review: Gene Defense hits you with a one-two punch. Both a suspenseful mystery and a bracing lesson in the insidious growth of government overreach, this is one good read.

Paeton Weaver is a Boston attorney whose sister, Casey, is accused of murdering her husband. Because Casey carries the "killer" gene, time is of the essence. Her trial date and defense plea could depend on the regulatory guidelines of The Genetic Tome, a massive Federal file of all citizens' DNA, which are soon to become the law of the land.

Paeton reunites with her brainiac cousin, Barry, who lives in a secure and tricked-out cabin in the backwoods of Virginia. Twenty-odd years ago the Feds took note of Barry's teenaged talent for all things techy and secretive. In due course, Barry becomes privy to enough government secrets to make Eric Snowdon swoon. Through Barry, Paeton learns that the government has established a system to weed out those citizens with negative genetic traits. Sound like the building of a master race? It is, but not for the same twisted reasons as Hitler's nationalism, but to manage health care rationing. Twisted, indeed.

Ashe offers up a plethora of background on economic policy, scientific research, and American political and social history in her cautionary tale.

Stay tuned for future works by Joy Ashe. Her reads compel the reader to slip into what would have been considered dystopian in 2010 and yet in current times seems all too real.