Outside the Wire: A Novel of Murder, Love, and War

by Gary Edgington

Overview

A retired LA counterterrorism cop and a fearless Army doctor risk everything, including their burgeoning romance, as they battle clandestine Iranian operatives bent on the slaughter of thousands of innocents and ultimately the destruction of America.

After a yearlong lull, local Iraqi insurgents launch a deadly mortar barrage at the sprawling Camp Victory Base in Baghdad, Iraq. Rick Sutherland, a retired LAPD lieutenant working as an embedded counterterrorism advisor, is wounded in the attack, and a local interpreter is killed. Along with Major Nancy Weaver, his former doctor and now partner, Rick embarks on an off-the-books investigation that quickly morphs into a race to stop murderous Iranian operatives from exploding multiple dirty bombs during a critical meeting of US and foreign heads of state.

Working together, Nancy and Rick make a formidable team-but will it be enough?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646639236
Publisher:	Koehler Books
Publication date:	08/30/2022
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Gary Edgington is a forty-year law enforcement veteran, and son of a police officer killed in the line of duty in 1979. While a counterterrorism task force commander for the California Department of Justice, Gary was embedded for nine years with the Los Angeles FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force; Gary also served as a counterterrorism/law enforcement advisor with the US Army in Iraq; on the Guantanamo terrorist detainee cases; with the Long Beach Police Department's Office of Counter Terrorism; and the US Special Operations Command. Gary has received recognition from the FBI, the US Attorney's Office, the California attorney general, and the Los Angeles Regional Office where he was named Special Agent of the Year. Gary's interests include spending time with his family, American and medieval history, world travel, and fly-fishing. Gary is married to TV executive Lisa Kridos, and the couple have two adult children and reside in North Carolina.

Editorial Reviews

"Awesome read and deadly accurate!"

-Stephen Bercsi, MD, Lieutenant Colonel USAF

"Outside the Wire is a great read-a riveting story told as fiction; or is it?"

-Wayne Rich, US Army (Ret.) Chief Warrant Officer 3, Joint Special Operations Command

"I just finished Gary Edgington's Outside the Wire . . . Read this book and you'll know what the war was like."

-Denis Flood, Captain USNR (Ret.)

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