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The Hunt for the Hijacked Nerve Agent

The Hunt for the Hijacked Nerve Agent

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The Hunt for the Hijacked Nerve Agent, the first KD Thorne thriller, is out now. Whoo-hoo!

(You may notice that the title has changed since the last time I mentioned it. I got some great advice from my editor, and I always try to listen to great advice.)

To celebrate the release, the eBook is $2.99 (US) for the next seven days. After that, it goes up to $4.99. (The paperback will be another six weeks.) Here’s the universal link to your favorite store: https://books2read.com/u/bMwaXv

And here’s the blurb:

Stolen nerve agent. Scheming terrorists. Federal agents running out of time.

A deadly nerve agent has been stolen from a federal containment facility. When the National Defense Agency is tasked with recovering it, operative KD Thorne and her partner Jeffery Blunt are put on point. Find the nerve agent. Eliminate the threat.

KD Thorne knows trouble.

Four tours in Afghanistan, a stint at NASA that went sideways, a marriage gone bad. She needs to work to keep her head on straight.

But as she and Blunt track the nerve agent from pharma executives and a military contractor team through white supremacists to a European far right faction, her personal life comes unraveled.

Can KD and Blunt stop the terrorists and retrieve the nerve agent before it’s released and innocents die?

The Hunt for the Hijacked Nerve Agent is a fast-moving thriller that will keep you turning pages. If you like pulse-pounding action and surprising plot twists, you’ll love the first novel in the KD Thorne series.

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I hope you enjoy it. And I’d love to hear what you think.

Happy reading!

July 9, 2021: Summertime reading

July 9, 2021: Summertime reading

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Just a short note. We’ve been visiting family in New York City (and playing with our granddaughter), which all seems a lot more special than it did pre-covid. Hope you’re able to get out and about wherever you’re at.

The new book is back from the copyeditor, so I’m making the final adjustments. More on that in a few weeks (I hope).

Previously, I mentioned reading Richard Stark’s The Dame, the second of four books he wrote featuring Parker’s sometime accomplice Alan Grofield. (I’m a big fan of the Parker crime thrillers.) Since then I’ve read two more of these—the first one, The Damsel, and the fourth one, Lemons Never Lie.

The first one, The Damsel, which takes up with Grofield recovering from wounds he received in The Handle (Parker #8), is a little loosely plotted for my taste. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed reading it. It just seemed to me that Stark was still finding his way with Grofield as a lead character in this book. And it’s not really a heist book: the plot is more focused on a series of unintended consequences that come out of the criminal choices made by the characters.

Now Lemons Never Lie, on the other hand, a novel where Grofield’s heist plans continually go wrong, is as good as any Parker novel. The plot just buzzes along, double cross on double cross, providing a lot of suspense and surprise as Grofield tries to end up as the last guy holding the bag of money. A fun read.

That’s all for now. Happy summer reading!