When vengeance is the
last, best option.
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Set in the shadowy worlds of unregulated genomics research and corrupt Big Sugar in South Florida, this fast-paced medical thriller explores themes of revenge, betrayal, noble greed—and the unintended consequences of tinkering with the life code.
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By day, Cassie Wilder is a promising law intern who lucked out in the genes department, being both whip-smart and adorably cute. By night, masquerading in sprigged wigs, tight silky things, and bright pink lipstick as her twin sister Grace, she’s even harder to miss. In her shoulder bag, she packs cash, Baby Wipes, and a cellphone gun loaded with sux-poisoned pellets.
By the time her brother, ex-pro baseball prodigy, Peter Wilder, and his son, Jack, find a dead body on a beached yacht, she has struck three times. All fatal heart attacks. All high-powered Big Sugar executives, who worked for the same genetics research institute as their late mother—the tragic victim last summer of an “accidental” drowning. Coincidence or sinister plot?
For Peter, the answer lies within his mother's missing journal, exposing the institute's cover-up of an off-the-grid genetics project ... where therapies trigger unintended consequences ... volunteers go missing ... and the men running the place are now dropping like flies.
When Peter uncovers the missing manuscript with its unfathomable secrets, he becomes a target—and Jack is kidnapped, as trade bait. Now the washed-up Big Leaguer faces a grave decision: Stop the killing, give up his sister, and save many innocent lives entrapped in the monstrous genetic experiments—or save the life of his kidnapped son.
WANTED:
A literary agent
and/or publisher
for my revenge thriller
Wilder Justice
and/or my new
YA mystery adventure
Raising Sloop John B.
Here's a taste.
And if you're the
agent of my dreams,
I'd love to hear from you.
When a split-second decision
changes everything.
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​ Teenage friends take refuge on a remote island off the Florida coast after a storm capsizes their sailboat, only to discover they aren't alone—the uncharted coral cay is a yacht chop-shop and smuggling haven for modern-day pirates.
When Jake and Luke Barlows’ damaged sailboat, the Sloop John B, drifts into their cove, the teens plot a daring night raid on the pirates' camp. Their plan: steal the parts for repairs and refloat the sailboat for their escape—before being discovered by the pirates.
It doesn't go exactly as planned.​
Raising Sloop John B launches a fast-paced YA sports mystery-adventure series, about the Barlow brothers and friends. Imagine the Hardy Boys, but with a serious upgrade: more tech-savvy, athletically gifted, and navigating socially-relevant John Feinstein and Mike Lupica-style sports stories, like Heat and Strike Zone. These tightly-plotted novellas deliver brisk pacing, ideal for young readers, particularly boys, who crave action-packed stories.
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Steven Vogel is an award-winning freelance writer/editor, magazine contributor and creative director, who migrated to the corporate world, completing thousands of writing assignments for some of the biggest names in the Fortune 2000. He self-published a nonfiction memoir The Prostate Storm (Amazon) and a photobook Up Kilimanjaro, both raising funds for prostate cancer research. Wilder Justice is his debut novel. A graduate from the University of Florida, Steve grew up on the beaches of South Florida, the backdrop for his recently completed YA novel, Raising Sloop John B—the first in a series of sports/mystery adventure stories about the Barlow brothers and friends. Steve and his wife, Lorraine, live with their two cats in Delray Beach, Florida.
