Toxic — Wes Demott

TOXIC, a story ripped -- as they say -- from the headlines, is Wes DeMott's explosive new thriller in which former FBI Agent Jack Wells fights extraordinary rendition on U.S. soil, police militarization, environmental corruption, disappearing freedoms, and America's reluctant acceptance of an oligarchy. TOXIC could not be more topical or relevant as DeMott mixes hard facts with great fiction, using a global chemical company's poisoning of Roanoke's groundwater, and Well's suicidal fantasy, to expose sad but dangerous truths about American greed, corruption and injustice in a breathtakingly fast-pace read.