Orchard Gap

by C. David Gelly

“A rogue biotech scientist secretly nurtures her deadly GMO corn seed while America sleeps…”A brilliant Ph.D. working for a global biotech firm in Research Triangle Park North Carolina is about to be honored as the youngest recipient of the World Food Prize. Hidden deep in her laboratory is her sinister plot to use her “secret” GMO corn seed to kill and destabilize America. An adrenaline producing thriller to capture this mysterious scientist before it is too late takes the reader through the slums of Karachi to the Genetically Modified Crop (GMO) Research fields of Kauai and is unraveled in tiny Orchard Gap, Virginia. Quinn McSpain and Louisa Hawke are called upon again in this agro-terrorism thriller to capture this rogue geneticist who holds the deadliest of secrets more sinister than Ebola and must be stopped before she brings America to…its knees!It is the second selection in the five novel “Gap” series. “Fancy Gap” was the 1st in the series and was very well received. In addition to over 145 Amazon reader 5-Star reviews, it was serialized for over a year in the weekend editions of the Galax, Virginia Gazette newspaper.

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 24, 2015

About the author

C. David Gelly, has authored numerous essays and short stories on global travel, athletic accomplishments and life experiences. A raconteur and xenophile of note, he is an avid marathoner and cyclist who explores unusual places in his travels on domestic as well as international assignments. He has plied his trade in government agencies as well as in the corporate ranks of many significant entities taking him through the streets and alleys of concrete canyons as well as the twists and turns of the Silk Road to the wheat fields of America’s heartland. He is a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston and currently resides in North Carolina as well as the mountains of southwest Virginia.