Retired NYPD Detective John Corey and FBI Special Agent Kate Mayfield are a husband and wife team at the ATTF—Antiterrorism Task Force. After a weekend vacation, they return to NYC to find that Corey’s friend from the ATTF has gone missing from a surveillance assignment in upstate New York.

As Corey and Mayfield probe into Harry Muller’s disappearance, disturbing clues surface. Muller’s assignment wasn’t what it seemed, and now he’s dead. Bain Madox, the billionaire owner of a “right-wing loonies’” rural hunting club, is obsessed with security. High-ranking government officials were weekend guests at the time of Muller’s arrival. And then there are the clues left by Muller before he suffered a “hunting accident.”

Corey wants justice for his friend’s death. Little does he know that Madox has a project ready to launch—four nuclear devices are set to trigger a nuclear holocaust that will make 9/11 look like a play date. All this in the name of future peace. If Madox isn’t stopped, the world will change. Forever.

DeMille brings back the wisecracking Detective John Corey in his most intense case yet. It begins as a search for a friend and turns into an unthinkable nightmare. Real-life research into nuclear terrorism inspired DeMille’s terrifying “what if” scenario. From start to finish, readers will be caught breathless.

Beyond its fictive value, WILD FIRE explores the question of how far people are willing to go to secure future peace. Are millions of deaths a fair trade for a world free of terrorism and war? Should sacrifices be made, and if so, how many and who?

After the final page is read and the book shelved, the question will remain: “What if?”

Reviewed by Christina Wantz Fixemer
10/27/2006

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