In the most chilling yet plausible thriller of the decade, a renegade DEA agent and a TV evangelist team up to execute the Final Solution to America's most intractable social problem—Poison the drug supply.John Hobart is a sociopath to whom neither ends nor means matter; only results. Simon Blake takes his orders directly from an angry God, who demands an end to the devastation of drug addiction—and damn the human cost. The narcotics are poisoned at their source, in the cartel's processing plants hidden in the jungles of South America. Meanwhile, full page ads appear in newspapers all across the nation, giving addicts a simple choice: Quit or die.Soon America's emergency rooms are flooded, chaos reigns in the inner cities, and the government is forced to act. Maverick FBI agent Mark Beamon is given the thankless task of finding out who's behind the shadowy "Committee for a Drug Free Society." Teamed with Agent Laura Vilechi, who is as icily analytical as he is intuitive, Beamon begins a desperate "all-points" search across three continents, racing against the drug cartels, the American mob—and the mounting violence of "the street." Vivid, believable, and blazing with lightning action, this gripping first novel captures every dramatic instant of the manhunt for the only mass murderers to win approval ratings in the polls. More than just world-class entertainment, Rising Phoenix is a book that will make you think—twice.Campbell Scott starred in Longtime Companion, Dying Young, The Innocent, Singles, and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle; he co-directed Big Night.