The Devil’s Workshop by Stephen J. Cannell

This is really not the best time to be reading a book that deals with bio-terrorism.   Covid-19 may not have been a weapon but it is changing our world.   Cannell postulates a scenario where the federal government is running a black program to create genetically targeted bio-weapons.

Stacy, a USC grad student, finds herself searching for the cause of her  husband’s alleged suicide.   She doesn’t believe for a minute that he committed suicide.

Cris, Lucky, is a down and out hobo, riding the rails and drinking himself into insensibility and oblivion.  The loss of his child has fueled his self-destructiveness.

These two unlikely candidates find themselves partnering with Buddy Brazil, a flamboyant and enormously insecure Hollywood producer to stop a white supremacist group from making a bio-terror attack.

Gripping comes to mind as, perhaps, the most descriptive term for this book.   Some of our current events made it difficult to put this book down.

I recommend it. 

This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.