Overview
In McKenzie’s debut novel, crack epidemiologist Dr. Ilsa Kivi, ex-CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, is hanging on by a thread. COVID-19 snatched her adopted daughter, Bea, along with her once high-flying career, and just maybe her sanity. Beatrice has been dead a year, and still the medical bills come. Her ex-boss, now the sole source of funding for her small Seattle-based research concern, is attaching strings to his generosity. And tucked into the day’s mail stack of past-due notices is a cryptic note from a Wuhan scientist. Ilsa does not have time for the drama.
Author Bio
Tyler McKenzie’s global perspective is informed by his extensive travel and life abroad, as well as professional years in hard-news journalism, television production, feature film development, and as an entrepreneur and business owner. Throughout this wide-ranging experience, he’s seen up close the profound, destabilizing effects that domestic and global macro-economic and geopolitical forces can have on local economies and communities. McKenzie finesses these forces onto the page in his debut novel, a globe-trotting thriller. When he isn’t plotting a literary end to humanity, he enjoys a quiet life with his wife, two dogs, and three fish.
