"The Exspiravit Protocol"

by James Newton

When a courier's fatal crash on a remote Oregon road exposes a nerve agent designed to kill and leave no trace, one analyst's discovery puts him in the crosshairs of a killing machine hidden in plain sight.
A technothriller for fans of Vince Flynn, Mark Greaney, and Michael Crichton
# Crime
# Genetic Engineering
# Political
# Mystery
# Thriller
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A routine chemical delivery crash on a lonely Oregon forest road shouldn't have raised any red flags. But when lab analyst Dr. Michael Holmes notices the driver's body shows signs no ordinary accident could explain, he uncovers something far more dangerous: a weapon engineered to kill a specific target and vanish without a trace — commercially manufactured, quietly deployed, and completely undetectable to standard forensics. As Holmes digs deeper, he realizes he's no longer just running an analysis — he's become a loose end in a much larger operation. Retired special forces veteran John "Bulldog" Roberts, an old colleague pulled back into a world he thought he'd left behind, becomes his only lifeline as the two men race to expose a company selling assassination as a service to the highest bidder — corporate, political, and foreign. Grounded in real toxicology and drawing on the author's own background as a British Army Reserve officer and science educator, The Exspiravit Protocol is a technothriller for readers who want their conspiracies chemically plausible and their heroes quietly, dangerously competent. The science is real. The question the novel leaves you with isn't whether this is fiction — it's how close the technology already is, and whether we'd even know if it existed. Book 1 of 2 — followed by The Lazarus Directive.