Quicksand

By William P. Wood and William Brinkley

Book Overview

As head of California's task force on narcotics and organized crime, Brock Andrews has earned his reputation as a tough, no-nonsense law enforcement agent. With his hardball tactics and skillful handling of informants, his team has successfully brought down some of the country's most violent and powerful criminals. But it's Brock's superior who's about to become his greatest adversary. Her name: Alison Andrews, First Assistant United States Attorney . . . and Brock's wife.




Publicly, Alison and Brock Andrews are a dynamic power couple at the pinnacle of federal law enforcement. Privately, their marriage is on the rocks. And the growing tension between them has only worsened with Alison's release of Edward Nelson, the disgraced CIA employee and international arms dealer Brock arrested months earlier in the biggest bust of his career. What Brock doesn't know is that Alison has recruited Nelson as her most important undercover operator in a plot to ensnare a ring of domestic terrorists smuggling arms overseas. Nelson, a master manipulator skilled at deadly games, has a plan of his own-to turn Alison's undercover operation inside out, unleash a secret army of heavily armed militiamen, and target Washington's high-powered political arena for a terrorist act of unparalleled proportions.




Nelson is once again number one on Brock's most wanted list. But with Alison protecting him from arrest, the only way to get to him is through an informant Brock has taken into custody. And while crucial information from this secret source helps Brock put together the pieces of Nelson's insidious plan, it lays open more questions-and even more disturbing possibilities, including Alison's complicity in criminal activity. Soon, Brock finds himself deep in a morass of shifting loyalties, outright betrayals, and hidden agendas that leave him running out of trust-and time. One thing is certain. Each hour matters, as Brock sets a dramatic trap to capture Nelson . . . and stop a terrifying attack on the heart of the nation. But first, he has to uncover the most dangerous truth of all . . .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620454742
• ISBN13: 9781620454749
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Turner
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

GREAT! A real thriller

In Los Angeles Harbor, assistant U.S. attorney Brock Andrews and his crew of men break up the sale of C-4 explosives to Syrian interests. There was enough explosive power being disposed of to have destroyed a very large geographical area. They arrest Edward Nelson, a former CIA agent and an internationally known arms dealer, who is now looking at serving at least a century of time behind bars instead of lixurious surroundings. A few months later, Brock's estranged spouse and boss, Alison, cuts a deal with Edward. She releases him in return for his cooperation. He will serve as a mole and help ferret out a domestic terrorist group. An appalled Brock cannot believe that the agency cut a deal with a person like Nelson, who is as untrustworthy as anyone and probably has an agenda of his own. Brock is right about the defamed former agent, but he is non-cognizant of the fact that Nelson plans to organize and release a powerfully armed militia, whose targets are in! power at the highest levels of political Washington D.C. It remains for the battling Andrews, who do not talk to each other, to reunite in order to stop an act of terrorism that not only seems impossible to put into action, but will cripple the country if it comes to pass. QUICKSAND is an incredible thriller that is played out on two fronts: the United States and the Andrews family. Though, readers will have to ignore federal nepotism laws, it is worth doing because that acceptance brings a ton of personal tension to this already exciting thriller. William P. Wood provides fans of political suspense novels with a fabulous winner that will leave readers searching the used bookstores for previous works by this talented writer.Harriet Klausner