Special Agent Henry Lightstone and his team must tackle a deadly cabal of international industrialists and financiers, who have joined forces with a terrorist group bent on "purifying" society by fire and other means of massive destruction. This fast-paced, high-octane thriller was praised by Publishers Weekly for its "blow-em-all-to-hell kind of liveliness". The sequel to PREY.
". . . keeps a big stewpot boiling . . . has a blow-'em-all-to-hell kind of liveliness." - Publishers Weekly
"WILDFIRE is an afterburner of a thriller, an incandescent torch that burns up the pages in a flurry of action and speed." - Tampa Tribune
“His prose is sheer explosive energy.” - Eric Lustbader
"Goddard writes circles around many others in his field." - Dorothy Uhnak
"Ken Goddard is a 'Field and Stream' Tom Clancy." - Kirkus reviews
"Goddard has a keen sense of how to hold the reader." - Clive Cussler
"Goddard nicely combines our instinctive fear of things glimpsed at the corner of the eye with the mind's rational habit of assembling evidence..." - Tom Perry
author bio: A former deputy sheriff, police forensic scientist and crime lab director, Ken Goddard is currently the director of the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory. His other novels include BALEFIRE, THE ALCHEMIST, WILDFIRE, CHEATER, DOUBLE BLIND, FIRST EVIDENCE, OUTER PERIMETER and FINAL DISPOSITION. Ken and his wife live in Ashland, Oregon. www.kengoddardbooks.com
Ken Goddard describes himself as "a crime scene investigator, forensic scientist, wildlife crime lab director, husband, father, grandfather, supposed cattle rancher, and more to the point, a fiction author who writes fiction novels about professional terrorists, underground chemists, demented burglars and malicious poachers for any number of reasons."
Henry Lightstone, Fish and Wildlife Department undercover expert, and his crack team of wildlife agents are back in business on the cutting edge of environmental protection. Running a covert investigation, Lightstone stumbles across the activities of a vicious professional assassin and discovers a link to an old nemesis: the ICER Committee, a ruthless junta of international industrialists and financiers bent on destroying the environmental movement through violence and terror. (Lots of other books and they're all good)