The Eye Of The Storm

                      

Madagascar, 2009.


As the Global Financial Crisis sinks its teeth into the world economy, no corporation is left untouched. 


Swiss pharmaceutical giant Wyman Booth Laboratories is teetering on the brink of foreclosure, however there is potential for it to be saved with a highly lucrative research opportunity emerging in the vaporous rainforests of Ranomafana National Park.


Meanwhile Danish nurse, Vicki Salling, is dedicated to preserving the unique but fragile biodiversity of the region.


Newly assigned as manager of an environmental NGO, she has grown fond of the charming Malagasy people, who are as enigmatic as the natural surroundings they inhabit.


However, reforestation is a Sisyphean task that is made all the more difficult by resistance from local farmers and the vested interests of the reckless local gemstone trade. 


When Vicki meets Luc Legrand, a debonair researcher at Wyman Booth with a murky history, an international saga unfolds in which everyone is implicated. From the executive boardrooms of Big Pharma, to isolated outposts within the dense Madagascan jungle, truths emerge that put innocent lives at risk.


But all amounts to nil when faced with the insurmountable force of the jungle, the only true decider of fate. It is the saviour and the barbarian, the refuge and the ultimate destruction, the void into which histories vanish and out of which legends are born.


Can Vicki and Luc find safety in obscurity from the global treachery that threatens them, or will all be lost as a tropical storm gathers on the horizon?