The Way of the Moth

Matt Jaxon uses his high tech advantage to find a missing Detroit student and uncovers a deadly terrorist cell

Jaxon and his elite high tech squad of private investigators in Detroit are retained by a worried Egyptian-American father to find his son.

In following the trail of young Hakim Mussa, Jaxon and his crew troll for clues in the posh precincts of Michigan’s integrated Arab community and the dangerous streets of Detroit’s gangsters amd drug lords.

Jaxon, a former cop, knows his way around the business world and the underworld. In this fast-paced thriller, they converge at the doorstep of Haseeb Ashan. Arriving in the US from a terrorist training camp in Pakistan, Ashan’s mission is to live below the radar, as invisible as a moth on sand until the time is ripe.

Ashan’s objective: to blow up the two bridges and tunnel linking the Michigan industrial heartland to Canada, the busiest corridor for US trade in the world. Hakim’s father is unaware that he had been recruited by the sleeper cell to wire the detonators.

Jaxon discovers the fate of Hakim and the sinister plot. His problem now: to foil the suicide bombers in time to avoid the loss the life that rocked London and Madrid and disrupt the security of America’s manufacturing base.

Frank Wydra is the author of a medical thriller, The Cure published by Dell and translated into German and Korean. He has crafted two cases for Matt Jaxon, the coolest detective in business, and foresees a lot more business for him.