The Warring States Conundrum: 1 (Winston Sage Trilogy)

.Winston Sage MD an epidemiologist and his wife Julia move to New Mexico for apeaceful retirement in picturesque artsy Santa Fe. At a welcoming party as a way ofintroducing himself to the new community Sage boasts of his experience in tracingpeople. A neighbor hears about this and asks Sage for help in finding his wife who hasrecently disappeared. Sage a medical detective who always wanted to play a realdetective gets involved thereby opening a Pandoras box of life-changing escapades.Sage becomes obsessed with trying to find the missing wife. He learns that she is anowner of a successful gallery on Canyon Road specializing in ancient Asian art. He alsolearns that she recently acquired expertise in Chinese ceramics of the Warring States Era(435-221 BCE) under the mentorship of a high-ranking Chinese-American nuclearscientist at Los Alamos National Laboratories. As Sage persists in nagging everyonewith questions the FBI warns him to stay away from the nuclear scientist a top securityfigure. At this point an unexpected attempt is made on Sages life and he is then takeninto protective custody. In a surprise ending the long sought-after Los Alamos mole isuncovered.