Introduction

A high-octane thriller that sets Dan Clifford against ancient secret societies vying for power in the modern world; in the vein of Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series.

In The Third Instinct, author Kent Lester brings his signature blend of cutting-edge science, history, and pulse-pounding action to the next Dan Clifford adventure.

A shadowy group of bio-hackers called the Firemen threaten to worsen the Covid pandemic by releasing an even more lethal version of the pathogen. But what drives the Firemen and how do their motivations relate to the wealth of the Roman Empire and to the third basic human instinct?

The answers may lie with prediction scientist Dan Clifford. Unemployed and struggling with two years of pandemic isolation, he is rebuilding both his career and personal life. His plans to propose to his adrenaline-junkie girlfriend, Rachel Sullivan, are interrupted by the FBI. Dan must connect a maze of clues from the shadowy underworld of Savannah's hacker community, to the ancient powerbrokers of Rome and in doing so, uncover a hidden agenda of big Pharma and a two-thousand-year-old battle for control of public opinion.

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1. A gene therapy cure for Huntington’s is possible in the Author’s opinion. In fact, Kent served on the Biosafety Board of St. Joseph’s Hospital in the nineties which was experimenting with two gene therapies, until one death of a patient in another state closed down the program nationally. Would you risk having your DNA permanently altered for the chance of a cure?
2. Should pharmaceutical companies be experimenting with deadly diseases? Are the benefits worth the risk. Do you think diseases ever escape from labs? (such as rumors about Covid and Chinese labs)
3. Would you succumb to the third instinct? Is there someone or something you are so passionate about, that you would throw caution to the wind to protect it/them?

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