Radioactive

by Lloyd Vancil

Detective Sergeant Mitchell Foster of the LAPD is haunted by his past. But when Foster wakes up each morning, he does his best to leave his combat experience in the past.

After a terrorist raid on a nuclear storage facility puts law enforcement officials across the country on alert, Detective Foster is drawn into the investigation of a terrorist plot. Disaster strikes when Foster's orders lead to fatal consequences for his family.

As Foster struggles to keep his guilt and anger from boiling over, an even bigger threat looms. With time running down, Detective Foster must set aside the past and stop the men who want to kill millions of innocent Americans.

456 pages, Paperback

First published May 2, 201

About the author

I am a Vietnam veteran and world traveler. I have been married to the love of my life for over forty years and we have three wonderful children. A large red parrot, named Scarlett often accompanies me and helps keep me in line.

Reviews

[Laurie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I ended up tacking this book on a vacation/family visit. Not the best time for this book. I had too many interruptions and days that I just did not get to read. I should have taken less than a week to finish this. Instead it took me 15 days. It is an intensely detailed book with a bountiful number of characters and plenty of action, too. Because of my long breaks it sometimes took me a few minutes to refresh my mind to "where am I?", and "who's this guy?". By the way there is a compendium of characters at the end of the book. That would have been extremely helpful if I had noticed it earlier.

[Simon · Rating 5 out of 5]

You know you are getting a good read when the author has clearly invested so much time in learning about the subject being written about. With Radioactive I had no doubt it was well researched and it's this that brings the story to life. The plot unravels at a blistering pace with the main character Detective Sergeant Mitchell Foster racing against time to avert a major terrorist incident. The suspense was kept all the way through and I really got the impression I was right there alongside the characters as events unfolded. I couldn't think of awarding less than 5 stars.