These obligations force the two to split up, Bill staying with the drug cartel problem and Aphrodite going to Baltimore.Īphrodite learns that Eddie is indeed into something heavy-a mysterious group of Muslims, and in the process of retrieving him, she is captured by the Muslims, who are the people tasked with infecting the United States with the plague. Then Irene calls to say that her son, Eddie, is into something very bad, people are going to die, and she doesn't know what to do. Solomon has also saved his life-Bill’s the kind of guy who gets into situations-and wants Bill to help him disentangle his nephew from a drug cartel. While they are at Irene’s biker bar in Baltimore, Bill gets a call from a friend in Honduras asking for help. In this book, Bill and Aphrodite are faced with two obligations: Bill promised Jimmy, a friend who died saving his life on an operation in Kurdistan in BARBAROSA, to tell his daughter, Irene, that he is dead. Thus the title, for Caffa was the source of the Great Plague that destroyed between a third and a half of the European population in Europe in the 14th century. The plot revolves around a scheme by retired senior officers of Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence Agency to use American Muslim terrorists to introduce pneumonic plague into the U.S. Fortunately, Bill and Aphrodite are back at work fighting the evils that continue to plague us. Marriage usually signals domesticity, babies, and cookie baking for the heroine and is usually the end of a series, but I was wrong.

I feared the worst when he married them off at the end of BARBAROSA. This is Charles Faddis’ third thriller featuring Bill Boyle and Aphrodite, the best and most complex of the three.

Caffa by Charles S. Faddis