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Mutant insects are killing people on Oahu and it's up to reporter NATHAN BREWSTER to stop them.

Nathan's nose for news alerts him to danger when he reads a police report detailing an insect attack that sounds more like a missing person case. He gets his hands on a dead specimen of one of the insects and takes it to the nearby college entomology department. There, he meets local farmer TOMMY WAGNER, who has just found more than a million dollars' worth of melons and peppers ruined by identical insects.

Scientists deduce the creatures are thrips, common yard and garden pests. But these have been altered at the genetic level, giving them the ability to metabolize pesticides and to reproduce at increased rates. Within twenty-four hours, more than a dozen deaths have been attributed to the melon suckers, and the tally keeps rising.

Nathan follows the trail of death and destruction, learning that the likely culprit is a renegade bio-geneticist who has plied his trade in other countries over the past ten years. Finding and capturing him proves a deadly risk that Nathan and his friends must face as they ask: Can the mutant horde be eradicated without destroying the island? How can the technology be kept out of enemy hands? How many people will die before the terror ends--if it ends?

More About Nathan
Nathan Brewster is a reporter whose nose for news gets a helping hand from an extranormal sense that tells him when something bad is about to happen. Trouble is, it doesn't tell him what. Could be a broken shoelace. Could be death by mutant bug.

After four years in Hawaii, Nathan has just about come to grips with some abrupt changes in his life. He works, he eats, he sleeps, he says hello and good-bye. Now and then, he saves the world.

Thanks to his weak prescience, Nathan has always had a kind of heads-up when it comes to getting in or out of difficult situations. Very much short of knowing the future, the ability puts him half a step beyond your average Joe.

Sometimes, he'd rather have a full step or two, like when his wife left him and he lost his job at the Indianapolis Herald. That was four years ago, and now he's in the Aloha State, putting his life back together, and doing what he feels is a decent job of it, though he knows something is still missing. Someone. But who?

Maybe it's JAEL DUNCAN, one of his co-workers, the daughter of newspaper publisher JOHN DUNCAN. She's a photo and Internet editor for the small but mighty Waikiki Times. Never one to mince words, she has kept a wary eye on Nathan ever since the mess he made of the paper when he first came on board, even though that mess wound up putting the paper on the world map.

The one-time haole reporter becomes an easy presence in her life and in the everyday workings of the paper, but when an unnatural disaster threatens the existence of life on the island, Jael learns she may have more than an abiding acceptance for Mr. Brewster. How much more?

Welcome to the extranormal world of Nathan Brewster.

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A while back, I created an accidental crime solving couple who are overtly Christians, and one of the short stories placed in a contest with MuseItUp Club. (Check out DETOURS.)

One thing that you won't find in one of my books is cursing or gratuitous sex and violence. I do that because I find it doesn't ever make a story any more real, just more embarrassing to leave lying around for your young children to find. I've got one of those (young child), and I don't want him going back to one of my books and picking out naughty bits. It's true that life contains sex and violence, and these days especially it's ever more in your face everywhere you turn. Still, that doesn't mean that you have to describe every element of the action to get the point across. At least, that's the way I see it.

So while the Nathan Brewster paranormal mysteries involve explicit crimes, truly nasty criminals, and completely drawn characters, if you and your kids can stand Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stories, you can probably stand one of mine.

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