The Perfect Narcotic...

Dr. Roger Jackson has seen thousands of arrhythmias in thirty years of cardiology at Miami's Mount Sinai Medical Center. He has never seen one he couldn't explain -- until a young woman arrives in his CCU with a heart rate that won't break and a toxicology screen that comes back clean. When a second case follows two days later, Roger starts pulling a thread that leads south across the Gulf of Mexico to a cartel that has done something new: gone legitimate.

Ten days later, Roger and Isabel fly to the Riviera Nayarit coast with their friends David and Pamela for a vacation all four of them have earned. On Day Two, David doesn't come back from a food run. By nightfall, both he and Pamela are held somewhere in the Nayarit highlands by the same organization that designed the drug Roger has been chasing. With the U.S. consulate moving at institutional speed and local law enforcement navigating loyalties Roger can't read, he and Isabel must work every channel available while David, a man with the right training and no good options, figures out how to walk out of the mountains on his own.

Corridor of Fire moves between Miami and Mexico, between a cardiologist who sees patterns and a chemist who built one, between the people who take the drug and the systems designed to find it. It is a thriller about medicine, loyalty, and the distance between designing a safer molecule and knowing what it will actually be used for. Precise, propulsive, and rooted in the real pharmacology of the opioid epidemic that is killing more than 100,000 Americans every year.