The White Protocol

We are beginning to see the end of the world.

But Sammie can see more than most . . .

Mere months after the successive deaths of her mother and younger brother, and with her father scarcely able to retain the house in which she was raised, Sammie finds herself alone in a vicious city, having landed a job at a gaunt and gigantic teaching hospital on the eastern side of the desolate metropolis, where she hopes to earn enough to help her father keep their home.

At the hospital, encompassed by illness, pain, violence and death, having found herself physically incapable of releasing the grief she carries for her lost loved ones, Sammie begins to see things: nefarious, nebulous entities which no other persons seem able to see, and which seem to her not only to have manifested from—but indeed to be feeding upon—the ever-expanding banquet of human misery.

And now these scavengers seem all the further allured by the unpurged agony Sammie has stoppered inside of herself.

Down in the bowels of the hospital subbasement, Dr. Eli Anani has developed a miraculous cure for Alzheimer's. But his treatment requires further testing, including MRI examinations of human subjects, performed under the guidance of imaging guru Marc Marini, who befriends and entices young Sammie to take part in their ground-breaking research.

But as the already brutal city grows worse with the world, until it seems everything everywhere is descending into irremediable chaos, Sammie discovers herself deep in a world of deception, drug trafficking, and terrifying forces that are beyond and yet beholden to humanity’s suffering, and to its own inhumanity. There is a madness spreading. What begins as a hope for healing memories concludes in unforgettable cataclysm as the forces awakened by the minds in the magnet turn their ravenous attentions to the wider world, to propagate turmoil in an insidious celebration of torment and terror.

Likely to be one of the most bleak and frightening books you will ever read, ambivalently supernatural and psychological, The White Protocol will pull you into a place where only two things are certain: death and madness; and there it will leave you, far more disturbed by what you don't see than that which you do.