Who really was responsible for the 2001 anthrax letter mailings that killed 5 and sickened 17 while paralyzing Americans with fear at the arrival of their mail?Now you can find out! Debut novel from a true-life disease detective. It is the fall of 2006 and the FBI has not captured the person or persons responsible for the deadly anthrax attacks of five years earlier. Epidemiologist Mackey Dunn is between jobs and only steps ahead of his demons. He begins digging into the details of the anthrax letter mailings overlooked by an intelligence community badly shaken after 9/11. Dunn enlists the help of FBI agent Charo Chen who is seeking to redeem her tarnished reputation as well as the bureau's in this fast-paced medical mystery {half of author's proceeds will be donated to charity}.
The author did a good job of having his characters investigate a real event. The plot trail was leading on a winding course, traveling well beyond New York before hitting upon the ending. Best of all, his characters feel like real people and his descriptions are often amusing.