In this outstanding international thriller by Jon McGoran, Detective
Doyle Carrick is awakened in the middle of the night by frantic banging
on his front door, followed by gunfire. Ron Hartwell, a complete
stranger, is dying on his doorstep.
A halfhearted investigation labels the murder a domestic dispute, with
Miriam, Ron's widow, the sole suspect. Doyle discovers the Hartwells
both worked for a big biotech company and suspects something else is
going on, but it's not his case. Then Miriam tracks him down and tells
him her story.
Miriam and Ron had been working in Haiti and visiting her friend, Regi
Baudet, the deputy health minister, when they stumbled upon a corporate
cover-up of tainted food aid that sickened an entire village - and was
100 percent fatal. They were coming to Doyle to blow the whistle. Before
Miriam can say more, they are attacked by gunmen, and she flees then
disappears.
Doyle tracks her to Haiti, a country on the brink of political chaos.
Working with Miriam and Regi, he must untangle a web of deceit and
unconscionable corporate greed in order to stop an epidemic of even
greater evil before it is released onto an unsuspecting world.
