‘The Alzheimer’s Cure’

Inspiration

(note from Peter)

The worldwide cyberattack on July 2, 2021, was the inspiration for this novel. I have woven the details thereof into the storyline to describe how a pharmaceutical company in Russia stole the information on a revolutionary cure for Alzheimer’s disease. This novel is thus partly based on a true event. 

A CIA agent is assigned the task of destroying the capability of Russian scientists to produce the cure. The daughter of the woman who inherited the US pharmaceutical company that developed it is a well-known socialite and features prominently in high society. Her conversations with the CIA agent, when he visits her mother and her stepfather to report on the theft, lead her to see the folly of the life she leads for the first time. She falls in love with him. He tries not to show his interest in her because he was instructed to avoid romantic relationships when he was trained by the CIA. He asks her to accompany him to Moscow, however, to attend a conference on Alzheimer’s disease to assist him in infiltrating the Russian company responsible for the theft. While in Moscow, their problematic relationship reaches its inevitable climax, and they confess their love for each other. Their relationship remains problematic, however, because he is away on assignments for months at a time, which she is unable to deal with. They have a disagreement when she pleads with him to stop the work he does. When he tells her he can’t, she leaves him and returns to her socialite life.