THE VIRON CONSPIRACY (JAKE SCARNE THRILLERS)

"A Lawrence De Maria title gives you more bang for your buck than just about anything in the book marketplace today." (FLORIDA WEEKLY); "If you like hard-boiled action, memorable villains and twisty plots, the Jake Scarne thrillers never disappoint!" (John Crudele, NEW YORK POST); "Master of thriller dialogue" (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS) ***A prominent Chicago law firm asks Jake Scarne to look into the case of a business executive murdered while on a corporate retreat in Hawaii. Despite a huge potential fee, Scarne is reluctant to get involved. After all, the Honolulu police have fingerprint evidence, plenty of witnesses - and a confession from the now-dead killer, who apparently also slew his own family! Then, the lawyers reveal that their client is the murdered executive's widow - a woman who left Scarne at the altar years earlier!Scarne's investigation soon uncovers an international conspiracy fueled by perverted science. Against the backdrop of his own personal turmoil, Scarne's hunt for the truth in THE VIRON CONSPIRACY turns into a race against time. Thousands, perhaps millions, of lives are at stake as strange diseases ravage humans, animals and crops across the globe!***Winner of an Associated Press award for crime reporting, Lawrence De Maria is a Pulitzer-nominated journalist who cut his teeth on financial corruption at The New York Times and Forbes.