Last Gleaming

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Last Gleaming: Love and Death in the Age of Pandemic</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The murder of Georgia Tech research engineer Garth Braithwaite sets off a flurry of speculation as to possible motives. The killer has taken Braithwaite's laptop and phone leaving his stash of drugs and cash untouched. Atlanta Police Sergeant Beth Long must run a gauntlet of political interference as she pursues a possible connection to child trafficking and espionage.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Retired Senator Harmon Wakefield races to build a new biotech operation ahead of a rumored viral weapon under development in Wuhan. He will stop at nothing to recruit Garth Braithwaite's research partner Dr. Sean O'Meara.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Harmon's grandson William Wakefield struggles to balance his university studies with a budding romantic relationship and a journalistic obsession fed by his other grandfather Tom Williams. Drawn into the Braithwaite murder investigation he encounters the dark side of the biotech industry.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Then the pandemic hits...</strong></p><p></p>