From New York Times bestselling authors Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille, Blood Lines features the return of Army CID Special Agents Brodie and Taylor who are on the hunt for the cold-blooded murderer of one of their fellow agents.
Army
Criminal Investigation Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor have been
separated for five months following their last assignment, a dangerous
mission in Venezuela to locate and detain an infamous Army deserter.
Now, in Berlin, they are reunited and tasked with investigating the
murder of one of their own: CID Special Agent Harry Vance of the 5th MP
Battalion, an accomplished counterterrorism agent who had been stationed
in western Germany, and whose body was discovered in a city park in the
heart of Berlin’s Arab refugee community.
The authorities
suspect this is an act of Islamic terrorism, but Brodie and Taylor soon
believe there is more to this case. The reason for Vance’s presence in
Berlin is unknown, and as Brodie and Taylor work to discover what the
murder victim was doing in the days and weeks preceding his death, they
become immersed in the many conflicts and contradictions of modern
Germany—the Arab refugee crisis, the dark legacy of the Cold War and the
Stasi secret police, and the imminent threats of a rising neo-Nazi
movement. At the same time, they are butting heads with the
authorities—both German and American—and facing a possible threat from
American intelligence agents who fear that Brodie and Taylor might have
learned too much about US clandestine operations during their mission in
Venezuela.
Ultimately, Brodie and Taylor realize that the murder
of Harry Vance was merely the prelude to a much more sinister future
event—unless they can unravel the mystery in time to stop it.
