Book Description
Bestselling author Kyle Mills' stunning debut thriller - In the most chilling yet plausible thriller of the decade, a renegade DEA agent and a TV evangelist team up to introduce the Final Solution to America's most intractable social problem. POISON THE DRUG SUPPLYJohn Hobart is a sociopath to who only results matter. Simon Blake takes his orders directly from an angry God, who demands an end to the devastation of drug addiction and damn the human cost. The narcotics are poisoned at their source, in the cartel's processing plant hidden in the jungles of South America. Meanwhile, full page ads appear in newspapers all across the national, giving addicts a simple choice:QUIT OR DIESoon America's emergency rooms are flooded, chaos reigns in the inner cities, and the government is forced to act. Maverick FBI agent Mark Beamon is given the thankless task of finding out who's behind the shadowy "Committee for a Drug-Free Society". Teamed with Agent Laura Vilechi, who is as icily analytical as he is intuitive, Beamon begins a desperate "all-points" search across three continents, racing against the drug cartels, the American Mob and the mounting violence of "the street".Vivid, believable, and blazing with lightning-fast action, this gripping first novel captures every dramatic instant of the manhunt for the only mass murders to win approval ratings in the polls. More than just world-class entertainment, Rising Phoenix is a story that will make you think twice.

About the Author
Kyle Mills lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he spends his time skiing, rockclimbing and writing books. He is also the author of Rising Phoenix, and Free Fall.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

A deadly plague strikes America's cities. Hospital ERs are jammed, chaos reigns in the streets, men and woman are dropping like flies. Someone has taken the war on drugs into their own hands and poisoned the narcotics supply. And most chilling of all: the majority of Americans approve! Summoned back to Washington by the director who exiled him, maverick FBI agent Mark Beamon is given the thankless task of discovering who's behind the full-page ads that have suddenly appeared in newspapers across the country, giving addicts a simple choice:. Quit or die. Teamed with a female field agent as icily analytical as he is intuitive, Beamon begins a desperate "all-points" search, racing against the drug cartels, the Cosa Nostra, and the random violence on the streets, as the poisoned drugs take their grim toll.

FROM THE CRITICS

Kirkus Reviews

In Mills's exceptionally accomplished debut thriller, a well- organized and generously financed vigilante group essays a final solution to America's festering drug problems.

When the popular Baltimore-based televangelist Simon Blake learns that his teenage son has been experimenting with marijuana, he commissions John Hobart, the church's security chief, to activate a draconian scheme casually mentioned in the course of a discussion about the federal government's inability to stem the inbound flow of narcotics. With $2 million at his disposal, Hobart (who was drummed out of the DEA for brutality) recruits a small band of like-minded associates and executes a cunning plan to poison the country's cocaine/heroin supplies at their offshore sources. Alerted to the extralegal campaign, the FBI puts maverick agent Mark Beamon on the case. Before Beamon can get started, however, addicts and recreational users alike are dying by the thousands from dope adulterated with the residue of a rare mushroom known as orellanin. Although more than half the country approves of what the conspirators are doing, and narcotics use plummets, Beamon mounts a furious effort to bring the unknown conspirators to book. Concerned by the group's impact on their cash flow, Colombian druglords and America's Mafia chieftains join the chase. The law and the outlaws catch up with Hobart simultaneously, and he doesn't go gently into that good night. By the time he's killed in a three- way shootout along the Baltimore waterfront, copycat organizations are doctoring the drug stocks delivered to ghettos and high-rent districts throughout the US.

A chillingly effective and suspenseful tale, complete with the moral ambiguities and guilty pleasures of such vigilante dreams as Death Wish.