Hot Tea...Cold Case
A new detective with a nose for trouble, and a taste for good tea! They had the perfect business plan and all the investors they needed to get the company humming along on all cylinders. And then they disappeared. Along with all their research, files and computers . . . and a vial of the deadly Ebola virus that no one knew they had. Enter Stephen Blackman, a fifty-something burned-out lawyer working his first case as a private investigator. Hired to try and find the missing scientists, Blackman turns up a dead body instead. And soon, hes caught up in this high-stakes, high-risk and highly confusing case to find the missing scientists before someone releases the deadly virus on an unsuspecting world. Blackman bounces against the worlds of international espionage, national politics and high technology in this exciting thriller, the first in a series featuring a different kind of private eye with a taste for tea and a nose for trouble.