The Vengeance of the Tau (Blaine McCracken Series #5) Book

In Egypt, Blaine McCracken tracks down a secret society whose ancient weapon threatens the entire world
Far beneath the sands of Alexandria, an archaeological team digs deeper than anyone has before, seeking an ancient power older than the pyramids. What they unearth is an evil that threatens the whole world. First it targets the worst of humanity: Ex-Nazis, Central American warlords, and the pushers who peddle drugs to children are found massacred, ripped limb from limb without having fired a shot in their own defense. But the next to die will be ordinary people. An insidious secret organization, the Tau, attempts to harness the vicious force as part of a plan for world domination. But Blaine McCracken is on their trail. The rogue American op has fought the worst men in the world, and he now faces something the likes of which he has never imagined. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jon Land including rare photos from the author's personal collection.

Since The Doomsday Spiral was published in 1983, Jon Land has written more than thirty novels. He began his career as a novelist at Brown University, where he talked the faculty into accepting a technothriller as his honors thesis. His first series titles were the Blaine McCracken novels, but it was his Ben and Danielle series featuring a Detroit cop and an Israeli detective who chase murderers in the Holy Land that brought him into prominence in the thriller community. Land has also written a series featuring Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong—a female hero in a genre which, Land has said, has too few of them. The first three books in the series—Strong Enough to Die (2009), Strong Justice (2010), and Strong at the Break (2011)—have all garnered critical praise, with Strong Justice being named a Top Thriller of the Year by Library Journal and runner-up for Best Novel of the Year by the New England Book Festival. Land's most recent work is Pandora's Temple (2012), the latest in the Blaine McCracken series. He currently lives in Providence.

Troubleshooter Blaine McCracken combats a terrifying new conspiracy in the big new international thriller by the bestselling author of The Ninth Dominion. McCracken is hot on the trail of what's behind a violent slaughter spree sweeping the globe. Original.