Vietnam veteran Rainbow Porter descends from his isolated mountain home above Albuquerque to investigate the suspicious death of his wartime buddy, and begins a frightening journey back into his own compelling past

Monkey on a Chain

Literature & Fiction

Campbell, Harlen

United States

DOUBLEDAY

Nick Cowan lost his innocence and his wife in the Sea of Cortez. A small town in west Texas took a gamble on the future and lost everything. Paul Stafford lost her brother to Helen Daws, who never lost a thing in her life. And all of them are heading for a bloody rendezvous on the shores of the sea of deception.

Sea of Deception

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

ABQ Press

When Gabriel scatters botulism toxin at a concert in an attempt to extort a fortune from the city, nineteen people die and Danny Murphy finds a gun. Danny's best friend is among the dead and he wants Gabriel's blood. But the death toll keeps rising, the hospitals are overflowing, and no one knows how Gabriel is spreading the poison. Danny's need for revenge grows as the body count soars. Then another source of poison is discovered. Common bacteria are pumping out botulism. The city is quarantined in a desperate attempt to prevent a pandemic and the search for Gabriel becomes desperate. The new plague must not escape the city, but it is hard to find an extortionist unless you know what he really wants. The city becomes a pressure cooker. The crematoria burn day and night. Danny stalks Gabriel through panicked streets while his family falls apart and the city struggles to reinvent itself. Then Gabriel reveals his final secret and plague explodes around the world.

The Gabriel Extortion

Red Hand Productions

High on a mountain above Albuquerque lives a man who's a throwback to the outlaw heroes of the Old West. Rainbow Porter lives on the edge, watches his back, and occasionally drops into the valley below to lend a hand to those in trouble. 
 To his door comes lovely Eurasian April Bow, adopted daughter of one of his Vietnam buddies, to appeal for help: her father has been blasted to bits in his California home by a mine, leaving her orphaned, broke, and scared to death. Responding, Rainbow begins a quest that turns into a journey back into his own past -- where he and a very select few did very well profiteering out of the war -- to find out why accounts, literal and figurative, appear to have been reopened.... 
 This first mystery combines appealing characters with a well-paced adventure staged in New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexco with a sidetrip to the Philippines. 
 Recommended to fans of John D. MacDonald and Randy Wayne White, whose stubborn Travis McGee and Doc Ford would be pleased to figure in Rainbow's story.

Mystery

Poisoned Pen Press

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Monkey on a Chain

Sea of Deception

The Gabriel Extortion

Monkey on a Chain