Taste of Venom (A Griff Mercer Action-Thriller)

The Cold War never ended. It just got hotter. When American intelligence operative Griffin Mercer is dispatched to Morocco to hunt down an international criminal, he uncovers a far more dangerous conspiracy: twenty canisters of stolen Tabun nerve gas are missing. His hunt to recover them leads him to the spy-infested city of Zurich, East Asia's casino empire in Macau, and whispers of a ghost submarine lost to history. Her name is Bao Nguyen. Once a South Vietnamese exile, now the most feared pirate in the Pacific. With a stolen Soviet attack sub, a blood feud against communism, and plans that could incinerate a continent, she's more than a myth—she's Mercer’s new target. But in a world where no one plays straight and every alliance hides a knife, Mercer finds himself gambling with more than his cover. To stop a madwoman with a nuclear submarine and a vendetta, Mercer is pulled into a high-stakes game of betrayal, baccarat, and brinkmanship—with millions of lives in the balance. High stakes card games, deadly nerve gas, and a Pirate Queen with nothing left to lose. TASTE OF VENOM is a gripping espionage thriller set in an alternate 1990s America, where the world has been reshaped by limited nuclear war. Alliances have frayed, superpowers smolder, and shadows rule the battlefield. View Less