Dick Hill

Zero Option / Sweepers Dick Hill

ZERO OPTION
When FBI Agent David Stafford finds himself on the Bureau's out list for publicly blowing the whistle on a corrupt colleague, he receives a low-profile assignment to investigate an Atlanta military base, where someone is suspected of auctioning off equipment without authorization.

Now a cylinder containing an extremely hazardous biochemical weapon is missing, and Stafford is on the trail of the thief--traveling from the hills of Georgia to the halls of the Pentagon--in a race to recover the weapon before it falls into enemy hands.

With strong characters and a plot that is frighteningly real, Deutermann's Zero Option is his most commercial novel yet, reminiscent of Tom Clancy and Nelson DeMille.

SWEEPERS
1969: a Navy SEAL, a trained assassin on a confidential mission, is dropped off in the Vietnam jungle. Days later, a U. S. gunboat returns to pick him up, but the boat's young captain panics under fire and leaves the SEAL behind.

Twenty years later, that young captain is now a Pentagon admiral as the SEAL returns to Washington, D. C. with his own career change: he's become a sweeper--a clandestine cleaner of secret messes. And he's come back to claim some things of value--things the admiral can't afford to lose.

Navy Commander Karen Lawrence--sharp, smart, and savvy--is assigned to investigate the bad things that start happening to the admiral. She finds herself caught between one man's boundless ambition and another's relentless quest for revenge.