BOOKS COMING SOON
New Adam Thomas novel in work - The Trashy Gourmet due out June 2012
New Virginia Davis novel in work, Dangerous Threads due out
fall 2012
Dangerous Threads
Virginia Davies-Clark is called back into the service of the Smithsonian Central Security Service and the Department of Defense, along with her husband Andy and her friend Donna, to locate a quilt. This isn’t just any quilt. At the 1933 Century of Progress in Chicago, Sears Roebuck Company sponsored a quilt contest. The Grand Prize was to be $1,000.00. The quilt that won the prize was a pieced one called “The Unknown Star” by the maker, Margaret Rogers Caden of Kentucky. The quilt, itself, was presented to the wife of the then President, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sometime during FDR’s presidency, the quilt disappeared and has not been seen for almost seventy years. Virginia asks why the DOD is interested in an old quilt. The government agent tells her the quilt contains wire recorder data on the final “Uniform Field Theory” or Theory of Everything. Dr. Einstein supposedly discovered the theory in 1939. And, the theory’s equations were put on a wire recording then placed into the quilt and then hidden as WWII broke out. The recordings of the theory must be kept away from everyone for the resultant theory could destroy the world, or so some people think.
Virginia’s job is to find the quilt, missing for over seventy years, and get the recordings to Washington for safekeeping. As she, Andy and Donna start their quest, they find they are not the only ones searching for the quilt and they are attacked by various organizations bent on stopping her and finding the quilt for themselves. Their adversary lists grows and it seems her worst nemesis is their own government. Virginia makes some strange alliances across the country to take down the organizations trying to stop her. Using her wits, cunning, intellect, and guts, she, Andy and Donna locate the quilt and the recordings and uses them to undermine a bold strategy by the traitors in our government trying to kill her and her little group and to take the wire recordings and sell them to a foreign power. Her conniving, devious and messy strategy brings the villains to an explosive end.
Murder: No Refund or Exchange
Chemist Jack Parker, Ph.D., is the Coroner of San Diego County California. He is also a reserve officer (Lt. Colonel) in the Army Medical Service Corp and has a background in Chemical and biological warfare from working for defense contractors and a stint at USAMRIID (US ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES). One of his Medical Examiners hits the HOT ZONE lock down button while performing an autopsy. Jack is called to the morgue. The body the M.E. was examining died of smallpox. Not regular smallpox, but an unusual and highly reactive strain of the disease. Dr. Jack looks at and realizes it is at a man made chimera. The smallpox released from the inside the cells of an E-coli bacteria as the cells were killed by antibiotics and the dead man’s immune system. Who made it? Where did it come from? E-coli is common. But, smallpox was eradicated decades ago. He knows there are still strains of smallpox in labs in Russia and in the US. Did a lab lose a sample? Who has the smallpox virus and why?
