“What in God’s holy name happened in here?!”
The
faint Southern drawl of Special Agent Sean McMullan echoed as his rich voice
boomed through the concrete corridor of San Quentin’s North Seg. The corridor
had otherwise fallen silent. It was a first for the prison’s original death row
wing, the wing eternally cacophonous with the rage of dead man walking.
Now? Men,
yes. Dead, for sure. None walking. Two tiers of thirty-four cells. Sixty-eight
dead men, not walking. Death row indeed.
Excerpt from The Death Row Complex, the second Katrina Stone novel. Buy The Death Row Complex in print
or ebook
.
An anonymous warning is sent to the White House, and a genetically engineered biological weapon is released in a California prison. The unpublished data of biologist Katrina Stone may hold the key to harnessing the lethal bacterium--and to its creation within the desperate world from which biotechnology is born.
Kristen Elise, Ph.D. is a drug discovery biologist and the author of The Vesuvius Isotope and The Death Row Complex. She lives in San Diego, California, with her husband, stepson, and three canine children.
An anonymous warning is sent to the White House, and a genetically engineered biological weapon is released in a California prison. The unpublished data of biologist Katrina Stone may hold the key to harnessing the lethal bacterium--and to its creation within the desperate world from which biotechnology is born.
Kristen Elise, Ph.D. is a drug discovery biologist and the author of The Vesuvius Isotope and The Death Row Complex. She lives in San Diego, California, with her husband, stepson, and three canine children.
No comments:
Post a Comment