[Under Eden 01] • The Ebola Conspiracy

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Gar Hart is a journalist with a gun. It might help him live long enough to break this story ...**

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Why would a billionaire's son steal money and land in prison - then mutilate his lips in his cell?

The family blames mental illness and begs for privacy. **Hart might have swallowed the PR line - if the people he'd quizzed about the incident weren't being murdered.**

Now **Hart's scaling the fortress walls of a politically powerful network of business leaders **whose influence spans the globe. He aims to crack open the murky underworld of the super rich. **But there's a catch.**

**Hart has children, Alice and Hugo, and death threats are being delivered**. And there's another problem.

Hart finds it impossible to back down from a fight.

Hart and his protégé Claire Styler link several mysterious deaths to the billionaire Charles East, his son, and a British banker. Blackmailers, mind-benders and assassins also have their snouts in the trough of a secret empire that's coming into focus. Hart dubs the empire 'Ebola'.

The journalists agree on two things: they're a long way from the whole truth; and they need to catch and expose it before it kills them - and dives back into the dark.

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**Under Eden. Part 1: The Ebola Conspiracy is the first of a three-part mini-series of thrillers** that follow Hart and his colleagues from The Citizen online news service across the world as they try to expose secrets of the wealthy and powerful.

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**Tom Flood, winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, says of *Under Eden***:"*Gar Hart, a bloody-minded press hack twisting the tail of a leviathan as submerged as le Carré's dark webs. Furness crackles out fire and ice in a wry voice, piles on inventive and ingenious mysteries, body-slams action like it's hot type, and bleeds characters as damaged and compromised as any Child, Connolly, or Grisham."*

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The author of *Under Eden*, Mark Furness, was a foreign correspondent who lived and worked in the US, the UK, Australia, and East Asia. He's also been a corporate spin doctor and political lobbyist. He claims his novel is a work of fiction. The good characters are based on real people. The black hats are purely fictional. Truly.