A trip to an island off the New England coast--and away from the demands
of police work--might be just what is needed to jumpstart Detective
Doyle Carrick and Nola Watkins' stalled relationship. But a mysterious
plague is killing the island's bees. Nola takes a job at an organic farm
hit hard by the disease, working for the rich, handsome, and annoying
Teddy, with whom she quickly becomes a little too friendly for Doyle's
liking. When Teddy's estranged father offers Doyle a big payday to keep
his son out of trouble until he can close a big government contract--and
when Doyle meets Annalisa, a beautiful researcher studying the
bees--Doyle decides to stick around. Stoma Corporation, a giant biotech
company, moves in with genetically modified super bees that supposedly
are the answer to the world's bee crisis. As tension grows between
protesters and a private army of thugs, Doyle realizes that bees aren't
the only thing being modified. Annalisa's coworkers start to go missing,
and she and Doyle uncover a dark, deadly, and terrifying secret. Things
spin violently out of control on the tiny island, and when Doyle closes
in on what Stoma Corporation is really up to, he must race to stop them
before their plot succeeds, and spreads to the mainland and the world.
Deadout is the thrilling follow-up to McGoran's highly acclaimed
novel, Drift.
