In this new novel in the terrorist crime-fighting series, featuring F.B.I. agent Karen Raney, our heroine lies in hospital, near death, victim of gunshot wounds incurred in a firefight with Al Qaeda terrorists. Her prognosis is of great concern to many. Al Qaeda plots against her as they pray for her demise. An American law enforcement leader prays for her speedy recovery and early return to the fray. The leader of a secret American paramilitary patriot group prays for her life and recovery of unique bonds they have forged. Together, these two have allied in not only terrorist crime-fighting focused on rooting out and destroying Al Qaeda terrorists embedded on American soil, but also in an intense personal friendship and romantic liaison. The terrorists are intent on importing deadly weapons of mass destruction onto American soil. Highly productive terror fighting contacts between patriots and formal law enforcement must be reestablished, even expanded, in order to successfully address the new Al Qaeda menace. Ultimately, the fight is carried into the deepest bowers of the enemy's foreign stronghold-a country hiding a long-running secret nuclear weapons program. American leaders are in denial and would prefer to ignore a program about to become the target of an unlikely coalition of Americans who want not only to confirm the nuclear weapons program's existence and location but who want to bring about its total destruction. The patriots have an additional secret agenda. Utilizing fascinating cutting edge technology to ferret out embedded terrorists, the feisty patriot organization also takes aim at a breed of American capitalists and political leaders who believe their destiny can soar to new heights on the backs of the American people and they owe no special allegiance to America or to their fellow citizens. The patriots think otherwise and they make their contempt for these individuals manifest, in daring ways and in the most forceful and emphatic terms.
About the Author: Greg Pierce, a retired professional engineer and land surveyor, resides in northern New England, where he practiced engineering and surveying for forty years. With 'Sheep in the Fold', his first novel, he introduced a new fictional crime-fighting heroine, F.B.I. Special agent Karen Raney. With 'The Tunnels of Apocalypse', his second novel, he has continued to build the legend of this captivating lady law enforcement agent and her unusual and diverse entourage. Through the riveting tales recounted in this absorbing series the author continues to explore the affairs of governments and large, non-government organizations, both foreign and domestic and what crimes one might find within that milieu of the rich and the influential. If only one could point an invisible looking glass into the hidden inner workings of such tightly closed organizations, what might one find out? In creating fictional heroine F.B.I. agent Karen Raney and disabled American veteran anti-hero, Johnnie Pellagio and the clandestine paramilitary patriot organization that Johnnie has founded and leads, the author has assembled just such an invisible looking glass. This looking glass is a vehicle capable of negotiating the hidden pathways of large organizations and exposing their secret inner workings. Now, finally, through the exploits of Karen Raney and Johnnie Pellagio, inquisitive readers and addicts of fictional crime and mystery writings have access to this powerful vehicle. Readers can join Karen and Johnnie and interact and move with them through their fast paced, always intense and sometimes explosive world. The reader will become intimately involved in exposing the crimes we have, all, always known were occurring just outside the field of our vision. In the current and in future novels, the author will be chronicling the exploits of this skilled and resourceful pair, assisted by a most interesting supporting cast of characters, each with unique spirits and fascinating backgrounds of their own, and all working in their strangely juxtaposed roles, to expose/conceal the hidden activities of the criminal underworld as it exists within governments and large organizations currently controlling the destiny of America and the planet.