The Nepentheum Conspiracy
by Darrin M. Taylor
Category: Fiction

The caller utters only these words, "Nepentheum will soon destroy this country," and hangs up the telephone. A week later, Special Agent Eric Callahan is found dead ten miles southeast of Washington, D.C. Refusing to believe that his best friend died of "natural causes," Federal Narcotics Bureau Agent Jack Saint sets out to find those responsible for Callahan's murder. His subsequent investigation reveals an almost unfathomable scheme. Out of vengeance for the killing of their father, following the Joseph McCarthy hearings of the early 1950s, the three brothers who own the Nepentheum Pharmaceutical Company have methodically formulated a plan to seize control of the federal government by addicting a percentage of the voting population to their so-called "Miracle Drug of the Millennia" by the 2008 presidential election. Saint's discovery leads him on a heroic and spine-tingling adventure to thwart the brothers' evil plan before America is faced with utter destruction.