The C Clef
The first book in the series, published in April 2016. The title is a double entendre with a music theme running through the book. The clef is also the secret key to unlocking the C-word: Cancer. The action takes place over five days in present-day Europe with references back to a darker time in human history. We visit New Zealand, Australia and the UK on the journey.
The C Clef explores the corporate world of cancer research and a pharmaceutical industry dedicated to finding highly profitable treatments to keep cancer patients alive, rather than to finding a cure for this deadly disease or a means to prevent it. Today the spread of cancer is at epidemic proportions. There will be 13 million new cancer patients across the world this year. But cancer is a devious, nasty disease that protects itself from the body’s own immune systems. Now it is protecting itself from society’s immune system – the white heat of public attention and debate. Something has to change or the misery and human suffering will just get worse.
The two main protagonists are thrown together in the book and forced into unlocking the secret behind the cure for cancer. The tension builds to a spine-tingling crescendo when they come face-to-face with the evil force behind their ordeal.
A Litany of Good Intentions
The second book in the series was published in October 2017. We catch up with Hannah and Lawrence, our two main protagonists, a year later. They are attending a diabetes conference in India when they meet up with someone Lawrence has known through his Rotary connections for over twenty years. The drama soon unfolds when a dead body is discovered in suspicious circumstances. The ensuing investigation takes them deep into a web of corporate greed, racial prejudice and a seething hatred for a new world order.
Poverty is the worst form of violence, as Mahatma Gandhi once said. The social weaknesses exposed in society by excruciating poverty create opportunities for making money through child slavery, prostitution and human trafficking. This is Evil on a global scale and leads our two heroes into life or death situations when they are forced to confront a truly sick mind being slowly ripped apart. Again the solution to the problem of poverty is to be found in a breathtakingly simple scientific breakthrough. But who owns science? And for whose benefit is scientific advancement being pursued?
Litany is set in a modern-day European summer and takes us on a roller-coaster ride from Stockholm to New York, through the poorest villages and wealthiest cities of India, into the backstreets of London and on to the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland. The pace is relentless and the twists in the plot uncover secrets and conspiracy theories about prominent figures in the history of science.
A Litany of Good Intentions - reader comments
"Andrew, I am well into part three of the book. It is such good reading I just can not put it down. I really like the idea of Part Two going back over time. I can not understand how it is not a top book for NZ. Or is it and I have missed it. I am a prolific reader and I struggle to remember a book that I would say was better. You really must market this professionally if you have not done so already."
Colin Dale
"Loved this book, being the 2nd in the Human Spirit Series, and also as a stand-alone book. Andrew Harris, the author brings out, in the form of a "must keep on reading" novel, some of the issues that confront us in today's world. He reminds us that we should not be too quick to accept what big business tells us and that we need to be more humane towards our fellow human being, if we want the human race and the human spirit to survive, and to survive well. He has obviously done a lot of background research and then brings it all together into a very readable book."
Mary Toner - Amazon review - June 4, 2019
More
The third book in the series, MORE, was published in May 2020. We catch up with Hannah and Lawrence a year after their previous adventures in India. They are about to announce a major breakthrough into the causes of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes, following extensive research at the Klinkenhammer Foundation in New York. As Hannah explains, there will be more food consumed in the world between now and 2050 than has ever been consumed throughout our history. This reflects expected population growth and our constant desire for MORE. Inevitably, the pressure is on to increase yield ratios, total food output, productivity rates and utilise genetic crop modifications.
Diabetes is set to become one of the biggest killers on Earth. The anticipation, therefore, over an announcement about finding a cure for this disease combined with a means to treat current diabetics and prevent the spread of diabetes has created a media firestorm.
MORE will examine the root causes behind human addictive behaviour and why the pursuit of wealth doesn’t correlate to the pursuit of happiness. The action explodes with a brutal murder in New York but the investigation soon goes cold as key witnesses become reluctant to co-operate for fear of their own lives.
Two lines of enquiry discover a link between the remote islands of Scotland, a deeply religious sect and a scientific discovery in the Amazon rainforest.
Sky Station 7 - The Race is on!
Under intense pressure to reduce carbon emissions by the aviation industry, the United Nations puts up a prize of US$10 billion for the first commercial airliner to fly non stop around the world without using fossil fuels.
Technological advancements in lithium-ion battery, hydrogen fuel cell and even nuclear-powered flight are being accelerated to meet the conditions for the race which will start and finish at St. Louis Lambert International Airport, the spiritual home of transatlantic aviation legend, Charles Lindbergh.
The winner is guaranteed lucrative manufacturing contracts into the next century and will be recognised for helping to reverse climate change and save the planet.
With so much at stake, mining surveys in Africa uncover a new source of mineral-rich deposits that could help revolutionise battery technology and help win the race.
But there's a problem.
To extract the ore will create an ecological disaster and destroy the lives of thousands of indigenous people. Dr. Hannah McGlynn, discovers a conspiracy that goes far beyond corporate greed into questions about the value of live itself.
The first life she needs to save is her own
Sky Station 7 is the fourth book in the Human Spirit Series by Andrew Harris. It is an action adventure thriller in the best traditions of the crime fiction genre.
The book is set in the present day and is designed to be Provocative-Informative-Entertaining.
The first book in the series, published in April 2016. The title is a double entendre with a music theme running through the book. The clef is also the secret key to unlocking the C-word: Cancer. The action takes place over five days in present-day Europe with references back to a darker time in human history. We visit New Zealand, Australia and the UK on the journey.
The C Clef explores the corporate world of cancer research and a pharmaceutical industry dedicated to finding highly profitable treatments to keep cancer patients alive, rather than to finding a cure for this deadly disease or a means to prevent it. Today the spread of cancer is at epidemic proportions. There will be 13 million new cancer patients across the world this year. But cancer is a devious, nasty disease that protects itself from the body’s own immune systems. Now it is protecting itself from society’s immune system – the white heat of public attention and debate. Something has to change or the misery and human suffering will just get worse.
The two main protagonists are thrown together in the book and forced into unlocking the secret behind the cure for cancer. The tension builds to a spine-tingling crescendo when they come face-to-face with the evil force behind their ordeal.
A Litany of Good Intentions
The second book in the series was published in October 2017. We catch up with Hannah and Lawrence, our two main protagonists, a year later. They are attending a diabetes conference in India when they meet up with someone Lawrence has known through his Rotary connections for over twenty years. The drama soon unfolds when a dead body is discovered in suspicious circumstances. The ensuing investigation takes them deep into a web of corporate greed, racial prejudice and a seething hatred for a new world order.
Poverty is the worst form of violence, as Mahatma Gandhi once said. The social weaknesses exposed in society by excruciating poverty create opportunities for making money through child slavery, prostitution and human trafficking. This is Evil on a global scale and leads our two heroes into life or death situations when they are forced to confront a truly sick mind being slowly ripped apart. Again the solution to the problem of poverty is to be found in a breathtakingly simple scientific breakthrough. But who owns science? And for whose benefit is scientific advancement being pursued?
Litany is set in a modern-day European summer and takes us on a roller-coaster ride from Stockholm to New York, through the poorest villages and wealthiest cities of India, into the backstreets of London and on to the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland. The pace is relentless and the twists in the plot uncover secrets and conspiracy theories about prominent figures in the history of science.
A Litany of Good Intentions - reader comments
"Andrew, I am well into part three of the book. It is such good reading I just can not put it down. I really like the idea of Part Two going back over time. I can not understand how it is not a top book for NZ. Or is it and I have missed it. I am a prolific reader and I struggle to remember a book that I would say was better. You really must market this professionally if you have not done so already."
Colin Dale
"Loved this book, being the 2nd in the Human Spirit Series, and also as a stand-alone book. Andrew Harris, the author brings out, in the form of a "must keep on reading" novel, some of the issues that confront us in today's world. He reminds us that we should not be too quick to accept what big business tells us and that we need to be more humane towards our fellow human being, if we want the human race and the human spirit to survive, and to survive well. He has obviously done a lot of background research and then brings it all together into a very readable book."
Mary Toner - Amazon review - June 4, 2019
More
The third book in the series, MORE, was published in May 2020. We catch up with Hannah and Lawrence a year after their previous adventures in India. They are about to announce a major breakthrough into the causes of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes, following extensive research at the Klinkenhammer Foundation in New York. As Hannah explains, there will be more food consumed in the world between now and 2050 than has ever been consumed throughout our history. This reflects expected population growth and our constant desire for MORE. Inevitably, the pressure is on to increase yield ratios, total food output, productivity rates and utilise genetic crop modifications.
Diabetes is set to become one of the biggest killers on Earth. The anticipation, therefore, over an announcement about finding a cure for this disease combined with a means to treat current diabetics and prevent the spread of diabetes has created a media firestorm.
MORE will examine the root causes behind human addictive behaviour and why the pursuit of wealth doesn’t correlate to the pursuit of happiness. The action explodes with a brutal murder in New York but the investigation soon goes cold as key witnesses become reluctant to co-operate for fear of their own lives.
Two lines of enquiry discover a link between the remote islands of Scotland, a deeply religious sect and a scientific discovery in the Amazon rainforest.
Sky Station 7 - The Race is on!
Under intense pressure to reduce carbon emissions by the aviation industry, the United Nations puts up a prize of US$10 billion for the first commercial airliner to fly non stop around the world without using fossil fuels.
Technological advancements in lithium-ion battery, hydrogen fuel cell and even nuclear-powered flight are being accelerated to meet the conditions for the race which will start and finish at St. Louis Lambert International Airport, the spiritual home of transatlantic aviation legend, Charles Lindbergh.
The winner is guaranteed lucrative manufacturing contracts into the next century and will be recognised for helping to reverse climate change and save the planet.
With so much at stake, mining surveys in Africa uncover a new source of mineral-rich deposits that could help revolutionise battery technology and help win the race.
But there's a problem.
To extract the ore will create an ecological disaster and destroy the lives of thousands of indigenous people. Dr. Hannah McGlynn, discovers a conspiracy that goes far beyond corporate greed into questions about the value of live itself.
The first life she needs to save is her own
Sky Station 7 is the fourth book in the Human Spirit Series by Andrew Harris. It is an action adventure thriller in the best traditions of the crime fiction genre.
The book is set in the present day and is designed to be Provocative-Informative-Entertaining.