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Brainwash
Darcy McClain has discovered unbelievable atrocities hidden deep within the basement labs at Los Alamos, and she can’t escape . . .
Former FBI Special Agent Darcy McClain and her sidekick Bullet, a giant schnauzer, are in Taos, New Mexico, when they stumble upon a flash drive in an arroyo on the property she’s inherited. The drive belongs to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
Darcy pockets it and hikes to the adobe on her land. There, she finds a pregnant teenager, Rio, searching the house for the drive, since it’s a possible clue to the whereabouts of her missing fiancé Johnny, who works at LANL. Rio is frantic to locate him. In a strange coincidence, Darcy learns Rio is the daughter of a family friend, and bound by this bond, she agrees to help the woman find Johnny.
What begins as a missing person’s case soon escalates into a dangerous game that places Darcy’s life at stake after she slips undercover and infiltrates the top-secret biotech labs at LANL, where shocking neuroscientific research soon comes to light.
Former FBI Special Agent Darcy McClain and her sidekick Bullet, a giant schnauzer, are in Taos, New Mexico, when they stumble upon a flash drive in an arroyo on the property she’s inherited. The drive belongs to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
Darcy pockets it and hikes to the adobe on her land. There, she finds a pregnant teenager, Rio, searching the house for the drive, since it’s a possible clue to the whereabouts of her missing fiancé Johnny, who works at LANL. Rio is frantic to locate him. In a strange coincidence, Darcy learns Rio is the daughter of a family friend, and bound by this bond, she agrees to help the woman find Johnny.
What begins as a missing person’s case soon escalates into a dangerous game that places Darcy’s life at stake after she slips undercover and infiltrates the top-secret biotech labs at LANL, where shocking neuroscientific research soon comes to light.
368 pages, Paperback
First published April 25, 2014
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Pat Krapf
8 books10 followersPat was born in New Jersey, but spent her formative years abroad.
After graduating from the University of Oregon, where she received a B.A. in journalism (advertising), she worked for thirteen years as a writer and product manager in the health care, aerospace, and architectural industries.
Pat lives in Texas with her husband and Giant Schnauzer.
After graduating from the University of Oregon, where she received a B.A. in journalism (advertising), she worked for thirteen years as a writer and product manager in the health care, aerospace, and architectural industries.
Pat lives in Texas with her husband and Giant Schnauzer.
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May 30, 2019
Hearing this book was about a private detective with a Giant Schnauzer, I wanted to read it. I was hoping for something like Carol Lea Benjamin's "Rachel and Dash" series; instead, I got a thriller where most of the action takes place in a hidden underground lab where experiments are happening without government oversight.
Darcy McClain is ex-FBI, retired from the force early to raise her younger sister when their parents die. After a friend dies, leaving Darcy a nice piece of land in Taos, New Mexico and her sister a Giant Schnauzer nicknamed Bullet, Darcy decides a trip to NM and then up north for skiing might be in order. Her sister, on the other hand, decides to ghost Darcy and go skiing with a friend instead, leaving Darcy and Bullet to explore the area where the land is.
During that exploration, Bullet turns up a thumb drive that turns out to be encrypted. And in the falling-down house on the property, they find a young woman, Rio, who is a shirt-tail relation. Rio's boyfriend has gone missing and Rio is afraid he's dead. And the clue is he was working for a labratory here in the area, and had told Rio if he vanished, to find that thumb drive.
Darcy, with the help of some of her old FBI contacts, decides to go undercover in the lab and that's where most of the meat of the story takes place, though it takes about half of the novel to get there. Once we are in the lab, everything starts happening quickly.
A good, solid read but somewhat draggy in the first half. Again, as I was looking for a story about a human/dog partnership, this didn't meet what I was looking for, but it would've been difficult to smuggle a Giant Schnauzer into a lab. Good for suspense fans and mystery fans.
Darcy McClain is ex-FBI, retired from the force early to raise her younger sister when their parents die. After a friend dies, leaving Darcy a nice piece of land in Taos, New Mexico and her sister a Giant Schnauzer nicknamed Bullet, Darcy decides a trip to NM and then up north for skiing might be in order. Her sister, on the other hand, decides to ghost Darcy and go skiing with a friend instead, leaving Darcy and Bullet to explore the area where the land is.
During that exploration, Bullet turns up a thumb drive that turns out to be encrypted. And in the falling-down house on the property, they find a young woman, Rio, who is a shirt-tail relation. Rio's boyfriend has gone missing and Rio is afraid he's dead. And the clue is he was working for a labratory here in the area, and had told Rio if he vanished, to find that thumb drive.
Darcy, with the help of some of her old FBI contacts, decides to go undercover in the lab and that's where most of the meat of the story takes place, though it takes about half of the novel to get there. Once we are in the lab, everything starts happening quickly.
A good, solid read but somewhat draggy in the first half. Again, as I was looking for a story about a human/dog partnership, this didn't meet what I was looking for, but it would've been difficult to smuggle a Giant Schnauzer into a lab. Good for suspense fans and mystery fans.
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