When Formula One champion and covert agent Devlin Lucchesi and his HELL Ranger crew return to the Monte Carlo Grand Prix to win big, a rival racer is fatally poisoned at the finish line. Devlin and the HELL Rangers suspect tainted grappa. They investigate Aurora Vineyard, set atop a hotly contested aquifer in the Italian Dolomites.Threatened by extreme water rights activists and cut-throat industry competitors, CEO Erika Aurora, dubbed “the Bloodsucker” by the industry, hires Devlin and his crew to hunt down her company’s usurper. The cases intertwine. Devlin deduces that the Aurora siblings may be tangled in a bloody power grab. Things heat up fast when the killer begins targeting the estate’s sibling owners one-by-one.Soon it becomes clear that a thirst for control and revenge is quenched only with a poison formula derived from the vineyard’s secret family recipe. The stakes soar when the formula’s lethal reach extends to the thousands gathered at a Palio horse race in Siena, including Devlin’s son, and to the world leaders of a global water summit in Verona. Devlin must risk everything to hunt down the killer and halt a poisonous calamity that threatens worldwide ramifications.
GINA FAVA, author of the acclaimed international suspense thrillers THE RACE (the first in her HELL Ranger series) and THE SCULPTOR (voted Best Mystery/Suspense Ebook by Indie Book Awards,) thrives on a solid adrenaline rush. Her thrills kick into high gear with her latest mystery, FORMULA: Another HELL Ranger Thriller. Her foray into relaxing non-fiction is UN MOMENTO: A TASTE OF ITALIAN-AMERICAN PASTIMES, a collection of family recipes and personal essays on tradition, family, food, wine, travel, and art, which is a perfect companion when strolling down cobblestone streets.
Even after enduring armed car chases and bomb scares while living in Rome years ago, she continues to travel back to Italy to hunt down hard-core grappa. She lives for white-knuckle roller coaster rides, climbing Mt. Washington, white-water rafting, reading thriller novels, and rooting for the Buffalo Sabres every year since their inception. A native Buffalonian, she resides in New England with her family and their two dogs, Lupo and Siena.