BLUE

What if you have it all? The job, the relationship, the looks, the absolutely perfect life. If you're an addict, does it matter? Trey Alan Bixley, undercover special assignments officer for the Moroccan Police Force, in his quest to halt the spread of a mysterious illness, is leaving it all behind. It all begins with a phone call. At the insistence of close friend and confidant- small town tavern owner Tug Harmon, he embarks upon a hush-hush flight to the remote island of Bautika, four thousand miles off the coast of Andalusia. What follows after his arrival there is anything but ordinary. Almost immediately, his usually good health begins to fail. First physically, then mentally, as his razor-sharp detective's mind begins to break down. Hovering on the brink of psychosis, he clings to hope for the future with his fiancee, Taylor, a promising young lawyer, while relying on an ever-present supply of alcohol and narcotics in a desperate attempt to escape from the illness. On opening day of the annual winter bazaar, high on painkillers and stone drunk, he bumps into Dale, a childhood friend, who pulls not only cigarettes but obituaries from her pockets, along with a fresh take on the deaths that are mysteriously occurring. Together they race the clock to uncover the source of the illness which is taking hold of not only the island, but of their lives. From the culling of fowl, to the cadavers overflowing the halls of the morgues, he continues to fight what appears to be a losing battle to not only halt the spread of the virus, but to locate the source, plagued by demons, both imagined and real, as stress, and finally the illness itself takes control. Whathappens next in this thrill ride of a novel defies all imagination...