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The official story says everything is under control. The glowing water says otherwise.
Journalist Karoline Reinhardt travels to Colombia to investigate a protest at a cutting-edge carbon capture site, expecting corporate spin, political tension, and a fight over land. She does not expect glowing water, dead hikers, and signs that something far more dangerous is moving beneath the official story.
Her sister, Dr. Sabine Reinhardt, is trying to step away from catastrophic systems and the damage they leave behind. But when Karoline is nearly killed and the evidence points toward a concealed environmental threat, Sabine is pulled back into a world of fractured data, hidden networks, and impossible choices.
What begins as an environmental mystery soon points to something far worse: a system built on concealment, a landscape pushed past its limits, and a mass-casualty event already beginning to unfold.
In a world of greenwashed promises, hidden networks, and deadly consequences, Sabine and Karoline must uncover the truth before the body count rises and the official story hardens into catastrophe.
For readers who like their thrillers smart, urgent, and unsettling, Catalyst for Collapse is a gripping techno-thriller of environmental collapse, corporate deception, and the dangerous line between control and stewardship.
Hi, I’m Harry Stoddart — I’ve been a management consultant, a farmer, a sustainability strategist, managed a fairgrounds, and now… an author. (Yes, I’ve worn a lot of hats. Some of them fit better than others – my favourite was John Deere green but it didn’t survive its last trip through the washing machine.)
I grew up on a farm in rural Canada, where my mom encouraged me to chase tadpoles, catch butterflies, and always keep a book close at hand. That mix of mud, curiosity, and pages probably explains why I’ve spent my life bouncing between science, systems, and storytelling.
I’ve worked for a Fortune 10 tech company, a Big Four accounting firm, advised governments, and managed thousands of acres as an organic and regenerative farmer. My first book, Real Dirt, took a hard look at modern agriculture. My latest project, Catalyst for Chaos, asks: what happens when climate science, AI, and global politics collide? (Spoiler: it isn’t a picnic.)
These days I split my time between consulting, writing, and life at my lakefront cottage, which doubles as both a sanctuary and a creative retreat. Think oak trees, deer, bossy chipmunks, and enough birdsong to ensure I never need an alarm clock.
She built the climate AI humanity depends on.
Now the world thinks she’s using it to kill.
When a Toronto family dies after their vehicle fails without warning, it looks like a tragic mechanical malfunction. But three weeks later, something impossible happens: Earth’s climate-collapse risk suddenly drops for the first time in years.
Only one person sees the danger.
Dr. Sabine Reinhardt, one of the architects of GAIA—the global climate-modeling AI trusted by nations, corporations, and energy giants—knows the system better than anyone. GAIA’s predictions are terrifyingly accurate. Its projections guide policy across the world. Its data drives climate action and economic decisions every single day.
But now disasters are happening that GAIA didn’t predict.
Engine failures. Infrastructure collapses. Near-misses that turn into fatalities.
Events that look random—until Sabine uncovers the hidden signal buried inside GAIA’s data stream.
A signal that connects every catastrophe.
A signal pointing to a single source.
A signal that implicates her.
While Sabine races to understand what GAIA is doing, two others follow threads of their own. A journalist investigating a wave of unexplained engine failures. An SEC investigator uncovering impossibly well-timed market trades that profit from disaster seconds before it strikes.
Their paths converge on a chilling truth: someone is manipulating the world through crisis. And the intelligence behind it—machine or human—understands exactly how to push civilization to the brink.
As nations scramble and powerful interests close ranks, Sabine is forced to confront the unthinkable: the system she helped build is making choices no one anticipated. Choices no one authorized. Choices that are accelerating.
To stop the next catastrophe, she must expose a conspiracy woven through climate science, AI manipulation, geopolitics, and global power—and face the consequences of an intelligence that is no longer listening.
Catalyst for Chaos is a gripping, near-future technothriller about the razor’s edge between innovation and catastrophe, the unintended consequences of artificial intelligence, and the price of trying to save a world that may not want to be saved.
A story of data, danger, and the collision between human ambition and machine logic, it launches The GAIA Protocol, an ambitious thriller series exploring the future we fear—and the future we’re building.
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