Hot Sand and Cold Blood

Author: F.W. Brown

ISBN 978-1-60264-162-4 (softcover)

262 pages

A nuclear trigger is missing from the strategic weapons arsenal at Lakenheath Air Force Base, England and a rumor is circulating in the CIA and OMNI communities that a Middle-Eastern terrorist group has taken the key bomb component. Fearing the worst, OMNI calls in Lance Ryder, their top investigator to track down the rogue organization and neutralize a potential holocaust. Acting on tips and his own analytical abilities, Ryder trails the evildoers across four Middle Eastern countries and the United States only to find out that the nuclear bomb threat is a red herring. To his horror, Ryder discovers the real threat is tenfold more destructive than a high yield detonation.
Employing all his investigative skills, Ryder unearths the name of Amal Kansi, a Saudi Arabian-born terrorist, and the brain behind a heinous plan to destroy the United States and cast the survivors into a world of anarchy and chaos- a world where the "Old One" will harvest souls.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Author, F. Washington Brown, a retired engineer formerly employed at White Sands Missile Range, NM is a freelance writer for New Mexico Magazine and pens a movie review column for the Alamogordo Daily News. The author is a world traveler and has lived in most of the countries he writes about for a period of a year or more.