Researcher John Whiley lives a relatively mundane life, working as an employee in a Chicago office building, located in the in the city center. But when his colleagues are murdered in broad daylight, by a pitiless assassin, he finds that this is just the beginning of a frantic bid to stay alive.
Despite his near miraculous escape, John is still in danger and must take great care if he is to survive the unwanted attentions of the mysterious killer who hunts him. Both running and at the same time seeking answers to the reasons behind the attack, John stumbles upon a clue that the massacre has something to do with a subversive book of economics.
Meanwhile would-be assassin Kevin Palmer has travelled from Okinawa to Paris to meticulously prepare for a momentous event. With his determination to eliminate the Pope, this ghostlike killer is on an unstoppable path that may change the destiny of all humanity.
But how does the mysterious book about the socio-economic change of the planet connect with an obscure experiment carried out in a medical laboratory in China? And is there a connection between the two attempted killings and the future of humankind?
Set in the near future, Futura is a novel where parallel stories run on alternate pages and competing economic and religious needs become blurred and ever closer. Many elements of it appear to provide us with an interpretive key of our current reality, particularly in the pandemic era where nothing is as it seems.