Fugitive John Whiley is still running for his life, from the deadly assassin who murdered his co-workers in broad daylight. As he pieces together the events of that awful day he begins to realize what research keywords may lead him to find out those who want to kill him and their motives for doing so.
He discovers that there is a connection between the socio-economic change in the global population and a medical essay on experimental cancer treatment connected to an obscure Chinese laboratory. The two seem somehow to be related to a novel about killing the Pope.
In his daring escape from the killers, he is helped by two women, Beatrix, a stranger he met by chance, and journalist Margaret Madison. With their help, John tries to stay one step ahead of his attacker and hopefully find the answers he is looking for.
Meanwhile, a network of investigators are frantically searching for the man who is intent on killing the Pope. They know that an attempt is being prepared but the killer remains elusive, assuming different identities, moving between real and virtual worlds where he meets those who are able to provide him with what he needs to make the assassination of the Holy Father possible.
In this frantic hunt an Italian magistrate unearths a key character, calling himself Janus and plies his nefarious trade in the virtual world. But can he be found before he gives the Bohemian what he needs to carry out his plan?
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.