Final Epidemic: A Beck Casey Thriller
This is how the world ends...
An invisible killer has returned. The last time it raged, upward of forty million died—in a matter of months. Now it's back, released to prey on an unsuspecting, unprotected world.
The first case appears on a flawless spring morning, initially diagnosed as a common cold—perhaps, a mild flu.
Then the deaths begin.
New York and Florida are quarantined. International travel is halted. A Japanese doomsday cult commits mass suicide, its final mission completed.
Beck Casey, an expert on biological warfare, is called back to his former CIA post to unravel the twisted case, and to discover if a vaccine exists. But Casey's potential allies to save the future are the worst enemies from his past.
Final Epidemic has begun...
Fire of the Prophet: A Beck Casey Thriller
In the world of espionage and terrorism, nothing is ever quite what you expect.
It’s always worse.
Beck Casey, the college-professor-turned-spy protagonist of the bestselling Final Epidemic, returns, now to confront the very real nightmare that that haunts every national security expert today: Nuclear terrorism in the American homeland.
Joining him in Fire Of The Prophet is a cast of faces both new and familiar:
In suspense-filled progression, Fire Of The Prophet builds from an opening set along the U.S.-Mexican border through the battlefields of the Middle East, and ultimately takes the reader to a looming Armageddon... in the capital of the United States.
“Hits you like a freight train, then drags you along for the ride. Earl Merkel’s latest is a master’s degree in terrific writing, strong characters, and just plain excitement. Don’t you dare miss it.” —National bestselling author Shane Gericke, Torn Apart
“Earl Merkel’s new thriller, Fire Of The Prophet, is a frightening and extremely well-crafted narrative of today’s domestic-terror nightmare, from the specter of the ‘blue-eyed terrorist’ to the dark international conspiracies aimed at the heart of America in our world today...” —Bob Hamer, author of The Last Undercover and former FBI undercover agent
Police detective John Davey once had everything—until bribery charges destroyed his career, his marriage, and his life.
Now he's been given a second chance. Davey is pressured into joining an investigation into the baffling murder of a wealthy Chicago couple savagely murdered before their North Shore mansion was set ablaze. To the city, it's a scandal. To Davey, it's overkill.
In the charred ruins, Davey finds clues to something more sinister than deadly premediated arson: a criminal maze threading back through history, and a connection to billions of dollars in artwork that disappeared during the Holocaust. As more victims emerge, Davey begins to suspect the motives of those he is forced to trust, with betrayal layered on betrayal, until he has no one left to believe in but himself.