The Washington Post lists the Genesis Code, a new book by Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl, as one of three new sci-fi novels that depict frightening alternate realities:
Set in 2023, Jamie Metzl’s techno-thriller Genesis Code (Arcade, $24.95) finds the United States in dreadful economic straits, deeply in debt to China and in the midst of a divisive culture war. When a newspaper reporter begins an investigation of a woman’s mysterious death, he uncovers something more sinister that involves genetic manipulation (the genesis code of the title) and various government and rogue forces. Metzl, who has worked for the National Security Council and is now a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, has a strong command of the financial, political and bioethical questions at the heart of his fast-paced dystopian novel.