The Developer

The Developer is the fifth novel in the Sean Murphy series. As with the first four, it is short and can be digested in a few hours. This time Sean is dispatched to Afghanistan to retrieve his interpreter, who was promised asylum but was left behind when America abandoned Afghanistan. He now has information the CIA wants, but he'll only deal with Sargent Murphy or Major Anderson. His information: America is funding a Chinese belt 'n road project. After successfully extracting Wadih and his family, Sean is hospitalized for injuries inflicted by a former Taliban foe. Concurrently, his daughter, a financial advisor in Lakeview, has become aware of a real estate developer's intent to defraud elderly ranchers of their land. The developer believes there are large deposits of precious metals, deposits resulting from Lake Missoula repeatedly draining some 18,000 years ago. The connection is a corrupt Senator.