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Can National Security Be Trusted?
Wanda Dyson Explores “What If” in Upcoming Thriller

Uhrichsville, OH—"…defeating terrorism must remain one of our intelligence community's core objectives, as widely dispersed terrorist networks will present one of the most serious challenges to U.S. national security interests at home and abroad in the coming year,” said Director of Central Intelligence Porter Goss, testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, February 16, 2005. As the threat of terrorism continues to play out in headlines across the country, one question that’s not often raised: What if members of the intelligence community or military actually help the terrorists?

In her third and final book in the critically acclaimed Shefford-Johnson series, suspense author Wanda Dyson explores this question, taking readers on a thrill ride through a maze of power, deceit, and national security in Intimidation (July 2005, Barbour Publishing).

Concerned for his family’s safety, FBI Special Agent Donnie Bevere has led a double life for years. To his fellow agents, he’s a handsome playboy. To everyone else, he’s a devoted family man with wife Lisbeth and two small children tucked away in the suburbs—and he intends to keep it that way.

But someone has discovered the truth about Donnie—and he’s using it to his full advantage. In one brief moment, he kidnaps Lisbeth and threatens to bury her alive unless Donnie turns over a flash drive confiscated in an FBI bust. Donnie knows the drive is part of something much bigger: The FBI had found a cache of weapons at the scene, suggesting that an American soldier was selling weapons to the terrorists to use against the United States.

Frantic to find his wife before it’s too late, Donnie calls in his friends, Detective JJ Johnson and Zoë Shefford, a former psychic turned private investigator. As Donnie and the team look for Lisbeth, FBI agents Neil Lagasse and Rick Harrelson are hunting for el-Hajid, a known al-Qaeda terrorist, and investigating rumors of a pending hit on a federal judge assigned to the upcoming trial of al-Qaeda terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay. One of the potential assassin suspects is Archie Kemp, a killer whom Donnie has been trying to find information on for years.

As Donnie and his team comb through files and brainstorm potential leads to find Lisbeth, they unravel a massive plot. A high-ranking general is stealing weapons from military bases and selling them to terrorists. The general and his accomplices plan to blow up the plane of al-Qaeda terrorists being flown in from Guantanamo Bay for the trial to cause a distraction while they move a shipment of surface-to-air missiles, purchased by al-Qaeda, off the military base. And the general hired Archie Kemp to kidnap Lisbeth and get the drive back from Donnie.

It’s a race against time, as Lisbeth lies in a coffin two feet underground in the woods with the targeted plane on its way.

Wanda L. Dyson is a Christian counselor, author, and speaker. After fifteen years in marketing and advertising, she returned to her roots of writing stories. Her first two books in the Shefford-Johnson series were Abduction and Obsession. Wanda and her daughter live on a 125-year-old farm in Maryland.

In Stores July 2005…Intimidation, Wanda Dyson, Barbour Publishing, 5 3/16” x 8”Softcover, 352 pages, $9.97 value price, ISBN 1-59310-244-5

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