Jon McGoran - Local launch for Deadout

Jon McGoran has written about food and sustainability for 20 years, previously as communications director at Weavers Way Co-op in Philadelphia and as editor at Grid magazine. Deadout is the second mystery featuring Detective Doyle Carrick.  A trip to an island off the New England coast—and away from the demands of police work—might be just what is needed to jumpstart Detective Doyle Carrick and Nola Watkins’ stalled relationship. But a mysterious plague is killing the island’s bees. Nola takes a job at an organic farm hit hard by the disease, working for the rich, handsome, and annoying Teddy, with whom she quickly becomes a little too friendly for Doyle’s liking. When Teddy’s estranged father offers Doyle a big payday to keep his son out of trouble until he can close a big government contract—and when Doyle meets Annalisa, a beautiful researcher studying the bees—Doyle decides to stick around.

Stoma Corporation, a giant biotech company, moves in with genetically modified super bees that supposedly are the answer to the world’s bee crisis. As tension grows between protestors and a private army of thugs, Doyle realizes that bees aren’t the only thing being modified. Annalisa’s coworkers start to go missing, and she and Doyle uncover a dark, deadly, and terrifying secret. Things spin violently out of control on the tiny island, and when Doyle closes in on what Stoma Corporation is really up to, he must race to stop them before their plot succeeds, and spreads to the mainland and the world.  

Event date: 

Monday, August 11, 2014 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Event address: 

Main Point Books
1041 West Lancaster Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19096

Books: 

Deadout: A Thriller (Doyle Carrick #2) By Jon McGoran Cover Image
$24.99
Title is Backordered
ISBN: 9780765334718
Published: Forge Books - August 5th, 2014