Tucker Wayne is ready to explore the wilderness of Yellowstone National Park with his military war dog and constant companion, Kane. Both have retired from the Army, and Tucker is anxious to leave it all behind him. He didn't appreciate being pressed into service recently by SIGMA, a group operating under the aegis of the Defense Department branch DARPA, but he and Kane sucked it up and did their duty. But when a friend from his Army days reaches out to him for help, he cannot refuse.
Jane Sabatello was working on a project outside Washington that was abruptly closed down. Everyone else associated with the project has turned up dead, seemingly from accidents, but Jane is sure she and her little son Nathan are next on the list. Their mutual friend from Army days, Sandy Conlon, has also gone missing from a similar project in Alabama, and Jane wants Tucker to see if he can find her. What he uncovers puts them all in danger from a mysterious enemy armed with the next generation of weapons. But what's the end game here?
Readers will be familiar with most of the components James Rollins and his co-author Grant Blackwood use in their nail-biting thriller, War Hawk (#570). The ways that they are already being used and abused are apparent from even a cursory glance at a week's headlines and newscasts. That's the element which makes Rollins & Blackwood's thrillers so very scary. Oh, and you might want to rethink that vacation to Trinidad...
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