Gaia: A Novel of Environmental Activism in the Age of Surveillance

One morning in the not too distant future, the world awakes to a cascade of digital a brilliant hacker (or group of hackers) is attacking major corporations and banks where it hurts the most, their profits. And most disturbing, the hacks appear to be unstoppable. When NSA Counterintelligence Chief Kim Jeffries is tasked with leading the investigation, she will learn that the hacker(s) is neither an anarchist nor a thief. It’s an environmentalist with a very clear save the earth and its creatures from human exploitation. But that’s just the beginning—and mildest—of the shocking discoveries. Through a series of unpredictable twist and turns, Kim’s discovery of her adversary’s identity will open very personal wounds, sending her on a mission not to capture, but to save the hacker from authorities, one of whom is a corrupt, wannabe authoritarian in bed with the corporate polluters.Gaia is both a thriller and a cautionary tale that draws on many historic and timely cultural touchstones, the Unabomber, offshore tax dodges, the Harvard LSD experiments of the sixties, the revelations of Edward Snowden, animal rights, the looming death of the environment, and the perils of technology-worship in the human journey.