The Typhoon Sanction
Mixing spies and counterespionage with old vendettas andsmall town murders, this novel pits the protagonist, ex-CIA agent Jay Stewart,against his Chinese enemy Phun , who hunts him halfway around the world to theOuter Banks of North Carolina. Stewart,a master of misdirection who manipulates key people to do his dirty work,provides a whodunit element to this international story as the reader tries tomake sense of four mysterious small-town murders. The more obvious the truthappears, the further the reader gets from it, ultimately being captured by thesame manipulative skills that made Stewart such a successful Field Officer.
Be careful or CIA Field Officer Cruiser, a master atmanipulating people and circumstances, will manipulate YOU in this story ofvengeance, murder, and global terrorism.
The Story Behind This Book
Robert Ludlum was a gracious man who hosted the launch party for my second thriller, Vapors. Although we shared a genre, my books were more political than his, at least until The Typhoon Sanction, which I wrote as my homage to Robert and the final step in my own transition from thrillers to adventure novels. Although I've had good success with three previous thrillers, I wrote The Typhoon Sanction as though Ludlum was looking over my shoulder. I think I succeeded in creating a story he would have loved to read.
