A decade ago in the small inland town of Lake Wales,
Florida, a massacre took place during a political
fundraiser for Birch Fairmont, leaving him and two others
dead in the aftermath. No one was ever apprehended for the
brutal crimes. Wanting to leave all the bad memories
behind, his widow Diane Fairmont moved to Tampa and became
involved with the Common Way Foundation. She is now their
candidate for governor of Florida. However, the receipt of
a 10-year-old newspaper photo of the crime with the
words, "I'M BACK, MISS ME?" written in blood-red marker
across it disrupts all their plans.
Cab Bolton, son of famous movie star Tarla Bolton, who is
Diane's closest friend, is dismissive of almost everything
except his work. Distancing himself from his mother, Cab
has gone from working for the FBI to the police to private
investigative work and back to the police in locales around
the world. For the past two years, he's inhabited the Gulf
coast of Florida as a detective for the Naples Police. Of
course, he's the one called upon to investigate the threat
against Diane. Cab is skeptical that this is just a
political ploy to get sympathy for Diana -- which of course,
means more votes. The close relationship between Diane and
Tarla, as well as a history between Cab and Diane, make it
doubly hard for him to be objective.
When Cab starts questioning the maneuvers of the Common Way
organization, especially the death of one of its
researchers, the more involved he becomes in learning the
truth behind a veil of secrecy that's been in place for
over a decade. With the advent of a tropical storm in the
region, time is running out for Cab to discover the truth
before more murders occur.
Brian Freeman's SEASON OF FEAR is so masterfully
developed you can almost feel the intensity of the tropical
storm as it overwhelms the locale and directly affects the
characters' actions. This adds a significant element to the
already suspenseful plot, providing an edge-of-the-seat,
nail-biting reading experience with an exhilarating
conclusion.
International Thriller Writers award-winner and bestselling
author Brian Freeman has established himself as a master of
psychological thrillers. In his latest, Season of
Fear, Freeman returns to the sun-drenched beaches of
Naples, Florida, and the idiosyncratic world of Detective
Cab Bolton.
Attractive and popular politician Diane Fairmont is running
for the Florida governorship, but a chill is cast over the
campaign when she receives an anonymous note announcing the
return of the assassin who killed her husband ten years
earlier. Because of complicated ties between Fairmont and
his mother, movie actress Tarla Bolton, Detective Bolton is
assigned to the case.
As Bolton struggles to penetrate the veil of secrecy
surrounding the Fairmont campaign, he begins to realize
that the death threat is not the only danger faced by the
campaign staff. A desperate race against the clock ensues
as Bolton tries to unlock the secrets of a poisonous
conspiracy before nature provides the perfect cover for a
long-dormant killer to strike again.
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