A professor living a mundane life in the rural Midwest, teaching at a small college, has developed a biological compound for human health that is poised to be the world’s greatest medical breakthrough. Despite his vigilant efforts to keep his astonishing research secret, the global industrial medical complex slowly gains knowledge of his work. The menacing deeds that ensue take us from an abandoned grain elevator in bucolic farm country to the great research and financial centers in the U.S. and Europe. The race is on to make this miraculous discovery a reality or to be doomed at the international hands of insatiable wealth and corporate greed.

A young, beautiful athlete–a single mother toiling as an everyday lab assistant–may hold the key to whether this mysterious compound saves millions of lives around the globe…or is vanquished from the earth.

Suppression delivers a slow-burn of suspense and intrigue that builds and never lets up. When small-town people achieve huge things that can change world, the trouble and sinister schemes only begin.

About the Author

Craig S. Maltby, a longtime Des Moines-area resident and Iowa native, is a former corporate suit living in the Chicago area. He is a classic rock die-hard and plays a passable keyboard and bass. Craig is also a semi-lousy golfer and the only person over 50 in the U.S. who does not play pickleball. Yet. To pass the time, he also worked as a COVID blood sample driver for a large pathology lab.  Suppression is his first novel.