THE DRAGON – A relentless action-thriller where business, technology, and human nature collide in an explosive story for our time.
The United States is on the edge of collapse. An unimaginable mountain of debt threatens to tear the nation apart. To avert a devastating default, the American President flies to Switzerland, unaware that a mysterious mastermind known only as “The Dragon” has already begun his deadly game.
Chris Marloh, a failed IT student, only intended to reunite with his college sweetheart in Davos. But suddenly, he becomes the last hope to stop a global catastrophe. To succeed, Chris must decode ancient Chinese stratagems – cunning tactics forged in deception and manipulation. With only two hours left, the race to stop The Dragon becomes a merciless battle against time.
Can Chris stop the Dragon – or is the fate of the world already sealed?
The Tower (in Progress)
A relentless, edge-of-your-seat action thriller exploring a nightmare scenario
that could be just around the corner.
A single conversation changes Chris Marloh’s life. A brilliant physicist offers him the answer to the greatest riddle in science – and a chip that could redraw the global balance of power.
When the physicist falls from Taiwan’s tallest building a few days later, Chris becomes the prime suspect. And the prime target.
At the same moment, Taiwan’s President Lin Meizhen faces the hardest decision of her life. She wants to give the world a constitution for artificial intelligence – the Magna Carta. But China threatens war, the United States threatens blackmail, and in her own country a crowd is demanding her head.
Caught between a conspiracy designed to turn two superpowers against each other and an ancient secret that will decide the outcome, Chris and Lin have only hours – before the world plunges into a war that could be its last.
John Lawrence
John Lawrence (pen name) was born in Hamburg and studied business management at WHU (Vallendar), ESADE (Barcelona), and the University of Southern California. For three decades, he led an international strategy and technology consulting firm – awarded, sought-after, and globally active. Yet, secrtly his dream has always been writing.
Today, he combines his passion for technology, suspense, and puzzles in gripping thrillers that capture the pulse of our times. What happens when artificial intelligence, geopolitical power plays, and human destinies collide? John Lawrence seeks answers – both in the real world and through his stories.