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The Fury

by Shane Gericke
Robertson Dean
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The Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico washes a cache of doomsday weapons onto a Mexican beach: bombs filled with VX nerve gas mixed with anthrax, invented by the Nazis during World War II and perfected by the United States to use in the Cold War. The bombs soon fall into the wrong hands and create an unstoppable opponent. Only one Chicago Police detective has a chance of preventing those bombs from being used on American soil. Reeling from the recent murder of her husband as well as allegations of police misconduct, Detective Superstition "Sue" Davis is thrown into an undercover assignment. She must infiltrate the Mexican narcotics cartel responsible for the death of her husband in order to get close to the cartel's sociopathic enforcer, Jimenez "Jimmy" Garcia. But when the entire Garcia family is killed in Mexico by a U.S. Special Forces raid gone wrong, Garcia will stop at nothing to get vengeance, including triggering newly acquired bombs on American soil. Superstition's assignment quickly becomes more dangerous than planned as the threat of a terrorist attack looms closer.

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  • Release date

    September 4, 2015

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781494523251
      • File size: 323644 KB
      • Duration: 11:14:15

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      An oil well disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, nerve gas invented by the Nazis during WWII, a Mexican drug lord, and an undercover Chicago cop posing as a hooker--this fast-paced thriller has it all. Narrator Robertson Dean's resonant voice carries the listener until the pieces begin to coalesce, but he misses the opportunity to clarify the sudden breaks between storylines. Dean portrays the cartel leader with depth, revealing his protective love for his sister as well as his cold-blooded villainy. As the female cop, Dean occasionally strays into a whispery caricature, but he successfully expresses her steely intensity in other scenes. With a compelling tone, he perseveres as the listener discovers whose vengeance will prevail. N.M.C. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 20, 2015
      Chicago vice detective Superstition Davis, the heroine of this competently written but overstuffed thriller from Thriller Award–finalist Gericke (Torn Apart), is devastated by the death of her border patrol agent husband during a gun battle with drug traffickers in Nogales, Ariz. The powers that be dispatch Superstition to Arizona to go after her husband’s killer, Jimmy Garcia, a powerful drug lord who slaughters anyone who gets in his way. Meanwhile, Garcia obtains warheads full of nerve gas that washed up on a Mexican beach in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico five years earlier. Flashbacks to WWII—in particular, to Unit 731, an unspeakably evil human-experimentation camp run by the Japanese in occupied Manchuria—help highlight the horror of biological warfare but prolong a story that already takes too long to reach the less than satisfying payoff. Some awkward dialogue and lame humor don’t help. Agent: Bob Diforio, D4EO Literary Agency.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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