A. B. Acharya
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"A must-read medical thriller about the thin line between innovation and exploitation." –BestThrillers.com (click to read full review)
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About A. B. Acharya
A.B. Acharya is a neurologist and writer based in St. Louis, Missouri.
His debut novel, Red Sky, is a dark medical technothriller available as an eBook and a paperback. The book was born during the pandemic, when long hours at home finally gave him the space to turn a decade of ideas into a narrative. The spark was the sudden medical interest in psychedelics as therapeutics, which got him wondering what would happen if an obsessed scientist tried to transform a deadly street drug into a pharmaceutical everyone would want to take.
The novel draws on his deep familiarity with neuropharmacology, the seductive logic of scientific obsession, and what happens when brilliant people convince themselves the rules don't apply to them.
He is currently writing the second book in the Juggernaut Series, set twenty-four years later, exploring how advances in AI and robotics are reshaping the future of work and warfare.
He practices alongside his wife, also a neurologist, who has been his most valuable editor and the reason the book exists at all. When he is not seeing patients or writing, he enjoys running and plays guitar. He writes about medicine, neurology, and the occasional existential rabbit hole on Substack.
About Red Sky
A Literary Titan Award Winner
He believed he was developing a revolutionary drug. Now he's accused of murder.
Narin Roy is a brilliant, obsessed neuropharmacologist who has spent his career studying Red Sky, a street drug that can make you euphoric and unstoppable, but without warning, triggers violent psychosis and death. When he discovers a formula that could neutralize Red Sky's deadliest effects and turn ordinary people into DaVinci-level geniuses, Harvester Pharmaceuticals comes calling.
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But Harvester isn't interested in saving lives. Behind its gleaming façade lies a secret military project built on Narin's research, one with consequences far beyond what he imagined. When Narin discovers the truth, he realizes his formula was never meant to change the world as he intended.
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Caught in a corporate power struggle between a charismatic lawyer with a ruthless hidden agenda and an embittered scientist who built the company and maybe destroying it, Narin can no longer tell where his obsession ends and his unraveling begins. Now he sits in a police interrogation room, accused of murder, writing down everything that happened, even as the drug that started it all still lingers in his system.
The question is how much of his account you can believe.
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Red Sky is a darkly compelling medical technothriller for fans of Michael Crichton and Blake Crouch who like their science frightening, their narrators unreliable, and their conspiracies disturbingly plausible.
The Juggernaut Trilogy explores a near-future in which humanity unlocks powers to control the world.
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As advances in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and medicine accelerate, the trilogy asks: What happens when our technological prowess grants us powers before we have the wisdom and ethical framework to wield them for humanity's benefit?
Availabe Spring 2027
Book 3
"I highly recommend this book. I couldn’t put it down. I actually neglected other activities just so I could read Red Sky."
Amazon Review