The U.S. finally has a super weapon in the war on a bio-engineered plant bacterium that will destroy the cocaine-producing coca crops of South America. But before it can be released, the drug cartels find out and launch a deadly pre-emptive strike on the lab where the virus is produced. One scientist escapes with a single vial, hell bent on releasing the substance to exact her revenge. On her trail are cartel assassins, the CIA and the FBI. Plus one unlikely ally, former Delta Force operator Doug Malone, secretly hired by the White House to find the scientist. His get her to “Flashpoint” and back alive.
Louis Tridico is the author of seven Louisiana-based thriller/mysteries. He grew up in Louisiana’s bayou and plantation country, listening to the stories his father and uncles told of the region. They were a huge influence on his current fiction. He began his career in advertising, PR and political consulting and has also served as media spokesman for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Department. He and his wife live in Texas .