James W Hall

Thorn must confront an assassin whose victims and methods are taken directly from the script of a popular TV show and pits Thorn against a killer--or killers--whose motives are as elusive as their identities. The killings take place in Miami, where Thorn joins forces with a young policewoman from Oklahoma who is investigating the murders.

Thorn becomes embroiled with the wealthy and secretive Braswell family following the deadly crash of an airliner off the Florida coast when he discovers hints of a weapon capable of destroying complex electrical systems and bringing down a plane.

"A year ago Thorn's son, Flynn Moss, disappeared into the eco-underground, his only contact with Thorn a series of postcards chronicling his exploits. But a postcard arrives unlike the others, a call for help, Thorn jumps into action, setting off for North Carolina. But before Thorn arrives, he's intercepted by a federal agent who informs him he's too late--Flynn had been acting as an informant for the FBI, and when his traitorous acts were discovered,...

After his father, Earl Hammond, is shot dead and two deviant contract killers kidnap a family heir, Thorn, it is up to Frisco Hammond and his brother's wife to solve the two crimes, which may possibly be connected.

In the process of investigating the death of his girlfriend, Dick Thorn stumbles on a plot which threatens environmental disaster. A demented fish farmer in Florida is breeding killer fish to wipe out marine life.

"Florida private investigator Daniel Thorn is worried when he learns that his recently discovered son, Flynn Moss, has innocently become involved with Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a radical environmental group responsible for arson and considered a top terrorist threat by the FBI."--