Zero Option
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ISBN: 031219210X / Publisher: St Martins Pr, September 1998
While investigating a scam involving public auctions of military surplus materials, military investigator David Stafford discovers that a cylinder containing a hazardous biochemical weapon has vanished, and no one in the powerful military bureaucracy will admit that it is gone
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The Defense Criminal Investigative Service sends David Stafford on a low-profile assignment: look into an Atlanta base where someone is running a scam involving public auctions of military surplus. But when he arrives in Georgia, Stafford stumbles on a dangerous secret. Soon he realizes that problems on the base run much deeper than he thought and could threaten national security. A cylinder of Wet Eye, a hazardous biological weapon with gruesome consequences, is missing, maybe stolen.But no one will admit it's gone.Stafford's suspicions lead him to Wendell Carson, a manager on the Atlanta base who has disturbing secrets of his own. As he hunts for answers, Stafford befriends an unusual, troubled young girl and her guardian, who live in a remote Georgia mountain town. What the girl knows about Carson and how she came by that knowledge trap Stafford between an unstable weapon with deadly power and a military bureaucracy desperate to cover its mistakes, no matter what the cost.
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