THE WILY PLACE, A Spy Novel

In this thriller about deception, global warming, and coming of age, Bob Smith, 26, never dreamed that the two men who barged into his house and the beautiful woman who seduced him would lead him into an intrigue that would kiss his rudderless life goodbye forever. Tapped to be a spy, he is rocketed from training to tailing Howard Wyn, a retired bull of a government agent bent on transporting a half-ton of nuclear material from Newfoundland to an unnamed country in Africa. There, in the same spot where Bob's father was killed a dozen years ago, Bob realizes he's part of a plot engineered by someone with a ruthless private agenda: carve out a new country using an untapped water source beneath Lake Chad. Accompanied by veteran agent Jack Stone, Bob meets the dangers of his new life head-on in the middle of the Lake before their final fiery rendezvous in the Chad desert.