The Suicide Plague

This book is the first by Ed Naha to feature the futuristic muck-raking journalist, Harry Porter, who, in terms of personal style and cynical outlook, has a lot in common with Mike McQuay's 21st century private eye, Mathew Swain. The world that Harry Porter inhabits is very similar to the one that Mcquay creates in his books as well. Both books feature great dialog and creative sci fi situations. Ed Naha wrote a sequel, THE PARADISE PLOT, which is every bit as enjoyable as this one.

(Cover Blurb) All over America thousands of kids were jumping off buildings. Ace reporter Harry Porter had the only lead. All he knew was that it somehow involved the Church of the Ancient Astronauts, a conspiracy to kill the President, and the imminent threat of nuclear war. Harry Porter was the last of a dying breed, a hard-drinking, womanizing print journalist in an age of tranx bars and "happy news" video. He had the biggest scoop of his checkered career- if he lived long enough to file it.I have read the book five or six times. The story of Harry and his friends(one of them a household computer) coming together to save the country, never fails to hold me. It is one of the few story lines that I have combed the book shelfs for, in vain.