Higher Forces

When Jack Hadley, a brilliant but conflicted bio-psych professor at Berkeley, falls in love with a unique post-feminist woman with revolutionary mystic vibes, they end up risking their lives in order to manifest Mahalena's passionate 'a la nueva' vision. And even while struggling against the CIA, Google, and Mahalena's genius-run-amok brother Bernardo, they also dive into a wild, compassionate (and often very sexy) intimate entanglement.

Secretly developing illegal mind-manipulation tech with clandestine military operatives, Bernardo Bernhardt has combined ancient Mayan shamanic rituals with just-emerging Silicon tech. He's set to bombard the minds of key world leaders - and Mahalena is determined to stop him not with more violence, but through her 'a la nueva' approach to life. Based solidly on quantum science, this illuminating adventure rushes from San Francisco to highland Guatemala, exploding our notion of traditional suspense with a unique heart-focused vision of human potential.

John Selby - author, therapist, producer - has published 30 books in 14 languages. He studied psychology at Princeton and UC Berkeley, and learned screenwriting from William Goldman and at AFI. He's currently finishing the screenplay based on this novel.