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Printer’s Row Lit Fest Chicago

June 10, 2017

Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Program: Writing Workshop: Writing Action and Conflict in Thrillers and Mysteries led by Jamie Freveletti

Location: Jones College Prep/4th Floor/4004

2:00-3:00  Signing at Mystery Writers Of America Tent

Jamie will be signing books both after her event and again at the MWA tent.

Printers’ Row Lit Fest http://printersrowlitfest.org/

 

Running Dark

[image error]The newest offering from Jamie Freveletti, Running Dark is her second thriller, published on June 29, 2010.

In Running Dark Emma is on mile 35 of the fifty mile Comrades Marathon, when a roadside bomb explodes. Dazed, she wakes to find a man injecting her with an epi pen. She continues the race stronger than before. Emma calls the one person who can help her, Edward Banner of the security company Darkview. But Banner has his hands full with another emergency, a cruise liner in the Gulf of Aden is under attack by Somali pirates, and Darkview is hired to assist with the rescue.

However, according to intelligence sources, the cruise liner may be carrying a chemical weapon of unknown origin. Darkview already has placed Cameron Sumner on the vessel, but Banner asks Emma to infiltrate the ship and determine the nature of the chemical it’s carrying. Once Emma learns that Sumner is on the liner, a man who has saved her life in the past, she begins another run, this one into hell.

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Running from the Devil

[image error]A RACE AGAINST EVIL…

Emma Caldridge, a chemist for a cosmetics company, is en route from Miami to Bogotá when her plane is hijacked and spins out of control into the mountains near the Venezuelan border. Thrown unhurt from the wreckage, she can do nothing but watch as guerillas take the others hostage.

An endurance marathon runner, Emma silently trails the guerillas and their captives, using her athletic prowess and scientific knowledge to stay alive. Those skills become essential when she discovers an injured passenger, secret government agent Cameron Sumner, separated from the group. Together they follow the hostages, staying one step ahead by staying one step behind.

As news of the hijacking breaks in Washington, the Department of Defense turns to Edward Banner, former military and current CEO of a security consulting firm, for assistance. Banner sends a special task force to the crash site, intent on locating the survivors before it’s too late.

But finding Emma and Sumner is only the beginning, as Banner starts to realize that Emma was on a personal mission when the plane went down. There is more to the talented biochemist and the circumstances surrounding the hijacking than anyone ever imagined.

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The Ninth Day

[image error]When biochemist Emma Caldridge stumbles upon a group of human traffickers, “coyotes”, smuggling illegals across the Arizona border, she suddenly finds herself prisoner of the most violent and feared drug lord in Ciudad Juarez. La Valle is ruthless, and his power and influence stretches from Mexico to Chicago. But La Valle is facing a much bigger problem than one American seeing his smuggling operations – a flesh eating toxin has developed on his prized marijuana leaves, and once touched or even inhaled, it kills the victim in just nine painful days. La Valle believes that this contagion is a product of U.S. agents contaminating his leaves in an effort to stop his operations, and he swears to exact his revenge.

Determined to find a cure and to stop La Valle from attacking American cities, Emma desperately searches for clues to help stop this virulent disease. Quick-thinking and bold, Emma will not be bullied by La Valle and his lackeys. She refuses to put any more lives at risk unnecessarily until she can discover an antidote. But when she herself becomes infected, the race is on, and she must find the answer before she reaches THE NINTH DAY

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The Geneva Strategy

[image error]On one evening in Washington DC, several high-ranking members of government disappear in a mass kidnapping. And one of the victims has particularly dangerous knowledge: Nick Rendel holds the confidential passwords that are used to program the US army’s drones. If he reveals this information, his kidnappers could reprogram the drones to strike targets within the United States.

Jon Smith and the Covert One team begin a worldwide search to recover the officials, but as the first victims are rescued, they show disturbing signs of brainwashing or mind-altering drugs. Smith’s investigation leads him to Fort Detrick, where a researcher, Dr. Laura Taylor, had been attempting to create a drug to wipe memory from soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. But Dr. Taylor’s research was suspended almost a year ago, when she was placed in a mental institution. Now, if Smith doesn’t figure out the brainwashing drug and track down Nick Rendel, the kidnappers will soon have the power to carry out drone strikes anywhere in the world….

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Dead Asleep

[image error]Biochemist Emma Caldridge comes to a remote tropical island in the Caribbean in search of minerals believed to reverse the aging process. What she finds instead are the bloody remnants of a bizarre religious ritual. And here, where the local people speak in whispers about sea monsters, ancient voodoo curses, and rampaging evil, she discovers something far more real…and more terrifying. One by one the island’s innocent inhabitants are descending into a paralyzing sleep of the dead-victims of a long-dormant, terrifying, and incurable pandemic that could once again wreak unimaginable havoc if it escapes from the island to spread like wildfire across the globe.

Trapped by a global quarantine, Emma must break through the fear and superstition to get to the truth, and stop the real evil, before she herself succumbs to the death sleep… along with millions of others.Because the evil here has an all-too-human face….

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The Janus Reprisal

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It begins with a terrorist attack. Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is attending a conference in The Hague on infectious diseases, together with leading scientists and political figures from around the world. Without warning, the conference hotel is consumed in a bloodbath. Smith is caught in the crossfire, and barely escapes…but not before discovering a picture of himself and two other targets in the pocket of one of the shooters.

But the hotel is not the only target under attack in The Hague. Bombs are going off at the train station, the airport, and the International Criminal Court, where Pakistani warlord Oman Dattar is being held while he’s tried for crimes against humanity. In the resulting chaos, the prisoner escapes.

Dattar nurses a special hatred for the United States and its allies. With his freedom, and access to a mysterious new weapon, Dattar puts in motion a murderous, ambitious plot to exact his revenge and bring down the West once for all—unless Covert One can stop him.

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Picoult — CANCELED!

Union League Club contacted me to tell me that Ms. Picoult was double booked in Canada and they will have to cancel this event. Please contact them for further information. Thank You! Luncheon conversation with Jodi Picoult Jamie interviews acclaimed author Jodi Picoult about her latest novel SMALL GREAT THINGS October 27 11:30 – 1:00 Union League Club of Chicago Ticketed Event

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