The Sleepwalker Legacy - Paperback

by Christopher Hepworth (Author)

The Sleepwalker Legacy is an action-packed medical, financial thriller that forces the reader to look deep within and make a decision: ethics and morals, or greed and power?
In 1814, Britain's foremost scientist, George Napier witnesses a drug-fuelled massacre on a US battlefield. The drug, Berserker, has a deadly side effect known as the Sleepwalker Legacy, which destroys the life of his Native American lover. After the War, Napier dedicates himself to the eradication of Berserker.
Two hundred years later, Napier's global pharmaceutical company has fallen into the hands of the ruthless Beckett family. They are determined to produce and leverage Berserker for profit, as the US government seeks to exploit the drug for military advantage. Sam Jardine is a direct descendant of Napier. When he discovers that Berserker could change the nature of humanity forever, he sets out to fulfil his ancestor's destiny by destroying the drug from within, using his extraordinary powers of negotiation. Sam finds himself battling demons from his past as he becomes entangled in a dangerous game of corporate espionage and a battle of wits with the beautiful heiress, Rachael Beckett. He resolves to help his lover, Cassie, who inherited the Sleepwalker Legacy and is becoming increasingly unstable. But Sam is in a race against time...

Author Biography

Financial Thriller author Christopher Hepworth has been a professional negotiator for over thirty years with some of the largest and best known companies in the world. He has won numerous prestigious awards in his chosen profession of procurement. He has spent half a lifetime working for an array of colourful captains of industry both male and female, inspirational and downright terrifying. He often wonders how these desk warriors would cope if they were confronted with real-life global emergencies rather than plotting their narrow-minded corporate agendas. With the magic of fiction, Christopher Hepworth has mixed them together, created a wonderful set of characters, added some timeless villains and dropped them in the middle of some daunting cliff-hanger plots in exotic locations. Born in the UK in 1961 and raised in Zambia in central Africa like his hero Wilbur Smith, Christopher Hepworth now lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife Anne and four children. Much of the spare time he found for writing has come while watching his children play representative cricket on playing fields around Sydney. It is amazing how many sentences can be written in between the fall of wickets. The exotic characters in his book reflect his fascination with the charismatic, proud but often maligned warrior nations around the world and whose stories are screaming to be told. In his books, Christopher Hepworth seeks to highlight the plight of those proud people who have suffered the misfortunes of fate and history but whose dignity and aspirations remain intact. Christopher Hepworth hopes that you will enjoy his new brand of hero fit for the twenty first century!