The Sum of All Evils: A thriller set in the dying days of 2012 - Tapa blanda

Set on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula in on the eve of the MAyan apocalypse, The Sum of All Evils opens with a creatively grisly murder in an opulent all-inclusive hotel on the Mayan Riviera and then follows hero, Canadian RCMP officer Stephen Catherwood, as he, his Mexican partner, a German archaeologist, and an American diplomat, race a Category 5 hurricane to solve the murder. Their journey takes them from the bright lights of Cancún to the heart of the Yucatán rainforest where they confront an indigenous myth that threatens global environmental collapse and inexorable social decay. To avert the foretold cataclysm, Steven and the others must battle the politics of oil, a secret and deadly new weapon, a delusional guerrilla who thinks he is the reincarnation of the Mayan feathered-serpent god, and the elements themselves. ..".a page-turning thriller disguised as a sobering climate change exposé, or a beautifully nuanced character study disguised as an intricate, international mystery. Either way, it gets under your skin." --film maker Daniel Yoon (Bluewater Films)

Leslie Beckmann is a biologist and an award winning writer; her short-form non-fiction story entitled 'Tortfeasor' received a CBC Literary Award in 2011. The Sum of All Evils is her first full-length work. Leslie can be contacted through www.thesumofallevils.com