Intentional Consequences

The Political Cyber Conspiracy to dominate the 2020 U.S. presidential election and reshape American democracy A sophisticated thriller based on real-world technology, politics and threats Sexy...provocative…sophisticated...enlightening...important…a compelling read Brilliantly captures our divided politics and the impact of technology on political manipulation and greed

Taking advantage of the current bitterness in U.S. politics, activist investor and political elite David Bernbach conspires with Chinese associates and a leading social media company to dominate the 2020 presidential election and usher in decades of single-party Democratic rule in the United States. As his strategy unfolds, he runs headlong into Eva Johnson, a beautiful artist and technologist who’s facing her own challenges with China and her husband, who runs a leading political data analytics firm. Supported by her husband’s billionaire partner and his wife, a nationally respected professor of American democracy, Eva teams up with a young newspaper reporter to unleash havoc on Bernbach’s conspiracy campaign with results no one expects.

Set in the early days of the 2020 presidential election cycle, in a world of artificial intelligence, fake news, facial recognition, altered images, drones, geopolitical hacking, privacy issues, social media manipulation and a loss of trust in our traditional socio-political institutions, Intentional Consequences rockets you forward through twists and turns, candidates and strategies, betrayals and double crosses, deadly assaults and virtual assassinations.

It’s the most revealing novel about political cyber espionage in years. Regardless of your politics, it will keep you guessing and thrust you into the middle of the technology, political and social changes that are threatening the future of American democracy. Read it now, before 2020!

If you like thrillers written by authors who make you think—like Daniel Silva, Dan Brown, Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton—and you enjoy contemporary nonfiction that confronts the technical, social and political challenges we face—like Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus , Thomas L. Friedman’s Thank You for Being Late and J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy —you’ll be glad you read Intentional Consequences.

About the Author

Charles Harris writes vivid real-world fiction that unleashes his characters into the emerging social, political and technological changes that are altering who we are and how we live. Fueled by years of experience as a business lawyer, professor, investment banker and CEO of publicly traded technology and financial companies, he uses meticulous research, action-packed plot twists and suspense to bring his characters and settings to life. He holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Florida and a law degree from the Harvard Law School. He is the author or co-author of several books on business negotiating as well as articles on technology, banking and the law. He lives in Florida with his wife, Jeannie.