After their mysterious disappearance, young Joshua Lee and his mentor Harry Epstein find themselves transported from New York by their captors to different locations around the world. Harry directs all his energy toward discovering Josh’s whereabouts and rescuing him. Josh’s mother, Jane Zhang, searches on two continents to recover her teenage son. Josh travels an unexpected and challenging path that transforms him – but for better or worse?
“How could I have been so wrong? For the first time in my life, I am part of something that will make a difference in this world. To soar as the Great Blue Heron is glorious!”
Joshua Lee
Guardian-in-Training
“We are on target to create a worldwide and borderless society dedicated to the survival of our human species, where peace and love reign. It is our youngest and finest who will fulfill this mission. We will not allow the misguided efforts of their elders to stop us.”
Max O’Mumm
Coordinating Director
Bureau of North American Affairs
“From every corner of the globe, I will rally opposition to this madness, this brainwashing of our youth, this denial of every individual’s hard-won right to decide their own future.”
Harry Epstein, Esq.
New York City
The new novel by Todd L. Platek
The human species stands at a crossroads not encountered in recorded memory. We face the challenges of two inevitabilities: the first — climate change, with its calamitous effects on the Earth’s ecosystems; and the second — the potential supremacy of artificial intelligence over the human mind.
G88 is the beginning of a tale about how mankind faced these challenges and overcame them…or not.
“Sometimes you’ve got to go with your gut. It wasn’t my choice. It was foisted on me. Now I have to see it through, before we’re all Blue Breathers. This book is the real deal. Don’t know whether I’ll be alive to see a hard copy when it comes out. Read it. Remember me.”
Joshua Lee
Bayside, New York
“Do not read this book. It is written by a rabble-rouser to create disorder in the minds of fools who refuse to accept the solution for bringing lasting peace and harmony to the world. Only we have the vision to rescue mankind from certain destruction.”
Dr. Wang Jingwei
Ministry of Education
Beijing, China
“This book is the libelous figment of the imagination of troublemakers who deny the wisdom of science and its power of salvation. It is a fairy tale for the weak-minded who see conspiracies around every corner.”
Dr. Agatha Lundy, CEO
New Day Corporation
New York, New York