Empty Promises (Jack Bass Black Cloud Chronicles)
Edwin Dasso

Big pharma is buying all the politicians in Washington, D.C. that they need to be allowed to unleash their new, but deadly, super-narcotic on the American public. When Hank Green has a bad reaction to the drug in what turns out to be an illegal drug study, Jack Bass is forced to get involved to try to put a halt to the study. He discovers that veterans are being conned into enrolling in the same illegal drug study…and many are dying as a result. Jack is almost killed as he looks under the rocks of the political landscape, wondering just how widespread this conspiracy is. There are some turns in this story likely to shock some regular readers of Jack Bass books! Does Jack survive the lightning strikes from his black cloud this time?