I enjoyed the premise of this story and believe it to be extremely plausible. The author writes his thoughts about a cure for cancer and what all the medical and pharmaceutical would do...cover it up, of course, as a cure would cause this group to lose trillions of dollars of profit and many jobs within the sector. My friends and I have had the same discussion and believe the above statement to be true.
In Lethal Misconduct, Cal is fired from SSi and goes to work for the President, who allows him to set up a new company and staff it with troops of his choice. He sets up this new group near the campus of the University he had attended in Virginia prior to joining the Marine Corps and hires most of the characters from SSI. Their first mission is to investigate rumors of a group building biological weapons within the U.S. The bad guys have ties within the government and are led by a former Army Colonel and his trusty bodyguard (a former Secret Service agent). They are funded by billionaires and CEO's of several larger pharmaceutical companies.
The doctor who had originally developed this possible cure for cancer, after visiting with a witch doctor in South America, was testing it on terminally ill patients and found them cured within a couple of days. However, his former employer - the Colonel - had stolen all of his work but was missing one piece of the puzzle. The good doctor is on the run and hiding from the Colonel's henchmen - no longer trusting his old boss. As fate has it, Cal's team stumble across the good doctor and agree to help him.
The billionaires are being duped and only three of the dozen people involved in the success of this plan have different agendas once they get the missing piece and complete this new drug. However, it's not planned as a cure - instead they are making a biological weapon and plan to launch it in the middle east. Having finally come upon this new plot, Cal and his team race to stop the implementation of this deadly threat.
Lethal Misconduct is one of the better books within the series and I highly recommend it. In fact, I stayed up late and finished the book in a single setting - just couldn't put it down! Looking forward to reading the final published book in the series and the new ones promised for next year. Great job Mr. Cooper!
John Podlaski, author
Cherries - A Vietnam War Novel