Set in the 90's, Raw Nerve delivers a powerful moral message by painting an alternative scenario to, what is now ,a famous event. America have now elected their first black president, but Raw nerve was written before the emergence of Barack Obama.
The novel asks the question: What happens if a pharmaceutical or cosmetics corporation attempt to target specific social and/or ethnic groups by infecting a product with a genetically programmed virus and only they have the antidote?
Thsi is a dangerous question. This is a dangerous book. A chilling book! But it was only after I had finished the novel I realised the horrendous truth about what I had written as fiction. Whilst listening to the South African truth commission inquiry I learned the apartheid government in South Africa had actually attempted to achieve the results suggested in this fictitious story - to genetically obliterate the black population!
This fictional story should be seen as a warning: what if that was to occur in the United States of America?
The story involves the Ku Klux Klan, the Afrikaner resistance movement and a genetic virus about to annihilate African-Americans. But the plot is essentially about one man against all odds who makes the difference. Gideon is a character with whom every reader with a heart and soul will want to identify. Like a surgeon he’s about to cut the cancer from society.
I connect the Ku Klux Klan with the Afrikaner resistance movement and add into the equation a white South African geneticist. Gideon infiltrates the Klan as a covert operative for a black four star general, Lon Travers, who is also the presidential military adviser. What he discovers is a genetic obscenity about to be unleashed! In short, this story is America’s worst nightmare!
The plot is fast paced, very intense and an irresistible page-turner: is the world is about to bear witness to yet another holocaust?
The emotional complexity of the characters punctuates the mood, often adding idiosyncratic colour as well as many sub-plot threads and story twists that will surprise and shock!
Gideon is the man who makes the difference when he tears the dark veil from the face of white supremacy!
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