A Conspiracy to Ponder
by Margaret I. Williams
Category: Fiction

In November 1990, Joe Clark's brother was shot to death as he slept. Joe shot and killed two of the three men responsible, but he remains haunted by memories of the bloody night. Six years later, Joe runs into an old associate, Benny Schroeder. A midnight rendezvous leads Joe, a police detective, into the mystery of thirteen women's disappearances. Lucky for Joe, he met Wu Chong, a reporter from China with a conspiracy to ponder. Wu's cousin had been incarcerated, then subjected to an early death sentence--probably an illegal move to meet heart transplant demands. The duo's efforts, now hinging on the accuracy of Wu's hunches, reveal a sinister donor operation, which points them to an all-powerful man impervious to the law, a man known only as the Colonel. A bloody trail to the truth unravels another plot--the hidden truth behind the death of Joe's brother.