Do our modern chronic health issues have a cause we can control? You bet they do. This is the first fiction novel designed to be a mythology that can strengthen your will to resist what is killing you.
Have you ever wondered why our chronic illness is so pervasive? Answer: everything is working according to plan, almost.

The conspiracy is revealed. All of humanity is a carefully planned resource project. The advanced race of Provenger introduce agriculture to our hunter-gatherer ancestors with the intent of returning thousands of years later to harvest the population it makes possible. The staff of life becomes the club of death in this dystopian tale that reveals their plan to biologically control the development of the human race. They have designed wheat to have very specific effects. They want their victims to populate the planet while slowing their technological advancement. Their prey will be numerous, plump, and harmless; the dream of any carnivore.

They do their job too well and things go horribly wrong. When they return they encounter multitudes that are sick, obese, and poisoning themselves with ineffective drugs in an attempt to heal from chronic disease caused by their modern diet. Sound familiar?

Flesh is tainted and the Provenger's planned organic human livestock is ruined. Unless there is time to correct human health, the Provenger will need to collectivize the population to better manage the product.

Rick Thompson makes first contact in modern times with these extraterrestrial game wardens as he becomes their unwilling operative. To prevent wholesale destruction of civilization, Rick must decide how to collaborate while resisting. He must help the Provenger conspire against government healthcare and nutritional guidelines to avoid collectivization, admittedly an impossible mission.
Rick is forced to fumble his way through the roles of assassin, turncoat, and the object of alien lust. He ultimately benefits from his collusion garnering renewed youth and unlimited wealth. Along the way, he acquires allies in the most unlikely places, and struggles for his teenage son, his new Provenger lover, and all of mankind with the only thing he has, his primal estate.

(Cover art and design by the author. The print in this book was purposely fixed at a size 12 font and spaced generously for those with vision issues.)
About the Author: Author Samuel Franklin has spent his life working and playing in extreme environments from alpine peaks to barren deserts, from high security prisons to the skies of the West Indies. As a United States Marine, educator, and member of the law enforcement and intelligence community, he has developed a breadth of knowledge of the human condition. His work and diverse hobbies have led him on frequent adventures.
Franklin began his journey into the Primal Estate in a most unlikely place, a small aircraft flying over a tropical island. Part of a special operations group hunting a subject, he began to realize something had been hunting him. It was the Aedes aegypti mosquito from the island's steamy suburbs. It had given him dengue fever and the symptoms hit at thousands of feet while circling a target. From the time of his landing and for two weeks after, Sam was wracked with fever, and bone crushing pain. When it was all over he was left with a debilitating, degenerative syndrome that doctors could neither identify nor understand. What started as malaise and stiff muscles progressed to most of the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. During years of suffering, after giving up on doctors who only wanted to prescribe drugs, Sam took full responsibility for his condition and searched for the truth about autoimmunity. Using himself to experiment, he isolated the problem and recovered his health.
Franklin dedicates his writing to a deeper understanding of the mind and body, and man's unique place in his environment.