Jack Bick is an interview journalist at a glossy lifestyle magazine. From his office window he can see a black column of smoke
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Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey is convalescing in the Long Island township of Southold when Tom & Judy Gordon are found dead on their patio. Corey knew the young, attractive couple, & Sylvester Maxwell, the local police chief, wants his big-city expertise. Maxwell, however, gets more than he bargained for.
The early signs point to a burglary gone wrong, but because the Gordon's were biologists at Plum Isl&, the off-shore animal disease research site rumoured to be involved in germ warfare, it isn't long before the media are suggesting that the dead couple stole something very deadly.
John Corey's investigations lead him into the lore, legends & ancient secrets of northern Long Isl&. But they are secrets more dangerous than he could ever have imagined
- & he becomes trapped in a crime with global implications.. .