The Blue Zone: a novel by Andrew Gross

Promising debut*** July 19,2007

Having coauthored five novels with James Patterson, Andrew Gross here strikes out on his own. Kate Raab, the heroine of this novel, is stunned by the arrest of her father Benjamin for engaging in money laundering for the Mercado drug lords of Columbia. Benjamin makes a deal to testify in return for witness protection for himself and his family. Kate opts to remain in New York with her medical student boyfriend. But Kate is drawn into the machinations as she sets out to find out her father's secrets. She encounters layer after layer of deceit culminating in the shocking revelation of her father''s true identity.