Blue Rain — Chuck Freadhoff

THEY SAY DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES. THAT SURE COMES IN HANDY SOMETIMES.

Los Angeles newspaper columnist Johnny Rose has barely begun looking into the discovery of a dead body in the middle of the Mojave Desert when a phone call sidelines him. A Vietnamese immigrant friend named Pham is positive he has just seen an American pilot missing since the war. Skeptical, Johnny agrees to meet Pham, but arrives moments after his friend has been murdered ... and in time to be caught by the police covered in blood, weapon in hand.

Shut down by his bosses, Johnny keeps the dual investigations going on his own. What he finds is the story of a lifetime: a chilling conspiracy reaching from an old war to a new battlefield ... with a deadline that's getting tighter every minute.