THE CONTAGION IS WITHIN YOUR MINDIn this research fiction thriller, brothers are pitted against each other being a pandemic threatens to destabilize world government authorities by exerting a subtle mind control more than survivors.Neil Johns has just started his fantasy job like a code breaker for the NSA when his brother Paul, a mycologist, goes missing on a trip to collect samples in the Amazon jungle. Paul earnings with a space in his memory and a fungal an infection that nearly kills him. But once he recuperates, he offers about The Genius Plague enhanced communication, memory, and pattern reputation. Meanwhile, something is happening in South America; others, like Paul, also have fallen sick and retrieved with skills they didn’t have before.But that’s not the only pattern-the survivors, from whole remote Brazilian tribes to American tourists, all appear to be functioning toward a common, deadly goal. Neil quickly uncovers a key, unexplained alliances type between governments which have traditionally been foes, and Paul becomes significantly secretive and erratic. Paul views the fungi as the next stage of individual evolution, while Neil can be convinced that it’s driving its individual hosts to devastation. Sibling must oppose sibling on an increasingly fraught international stage, with the free of charge will of each human on earth at stake. Can humanity use this force once and for all, or are we becoming the pawns of the utterly alien intelligence?