In Australian author Rollins’s exciting sequel to The Death Trust
, Vincent Cooper, now working at the Pentagon as an investigator for the Department of Defense, looks into the suspicious death of Dr. Hideo Tanaka, the victim of a shark attack. In a deep-sea trench off Japan, Tanaka and his research partner, Professor Sean Boyle, had discovered a strange bacterium with the potential to imperil the entire world. Since Vin’s long-distance relationship with Maj. Anna Masters, who helped him with the case he pursued in Germany in The Death Trust
, is on the rocks, he can’t feel too guilty about having torrid sex with his superior officer, Lt. Col. Clare Selwyn. Meanwhile, Vin must also investigate the parachute mishap death of an old comrade from Afghanistan, Master Sgt. Ruben “Wrong Way” Wright. Readers will cheer as the wisecracking Vin refuses to give up in perilous situations that would have discouraged if not killed your average thriller hero. (Mar.)
