The Search for Fiona

Kitty Tolsma Anderson

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Intense action showcasing multiple heroes erupts with unfathomable twists and turns in this international hunt to find a kidnapped virologist during the Covid-19 pandemic.

THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK PROVIDES A NEW CLUE TO A STONE-COLD KIDNAPPING CASE

Decades ago, a SCIB bioweapons spy ring operative abducted Detective Benson Purdy's daughter-in-law, Fiona, a young virologist with a promising career in mRNA technology. Circumstances force Benson's clan of detectives into the Witness Security Program. Fiona's husband, Cole, still longs for the love of his life, but has no hope of ever finding her. Until now.

Cole dares to follow a new lead that surfaces during the pandemic. It begins in a Chinese laboratory and transitions to a castle in Tibet. Before the Purdy (alias Anderson) family can react, their Pacific Northwest bunker comes under siege as the enemy closes in to neutralize the threat posed to their international scheme.

OF THOSE WHO ESCAPE, WILL ANY BE ABLE TO RESCUE FIONA BEFORE A NEW VIRAL VARIANT SETS OFF ANOTHER GLOBAL PANDEMIC?

Sujets

• Espiritual
• Spiritual
• Detective
• Espionage
• Biological warfare
• Mystery
• Pandemic
• Faith
• Christian
• Spy
• Romance
• Thriller
• Fiction
• Action

Informations

• Publié par: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 20 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781663238535
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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THE SEARCH FOR FIONA
 
END TIMES NAVIGATION SERIES BOOK ONE
 
 
 
KITTY TOLSMA ANDERSON
 
 
 

 
THE SEARCH FOR FIONA
END TIMES NAVIGATION SERIES BOOK ONE
 
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Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.
 
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iUniverse rev. date:   09/16/2022
 
This is brilliant! It belongs on a best sellers list and become the next Tribulation movie series. – Cheri Clark
“Interesting. Unique, because your thought processes are startling and different…Science fiction let loose…Characters with all sorts of rare abilities, slung about with effective exactness. Yes. What an imagination on view!” – Harry Chinchinian, MD
“This was a creative, fun read with fascinating characters, and I loved the deeper message about faith in God.” – Catherine Brown, PharmD
“An action-filled story of faith.” – Wilma Peterson
“ The Search for Fiona needs to publish now while people are still processing the ramifications of the pandemic. And the sequel! I can hardly wait for Skating the Blade of Wrath to be released!” – Sheila Criscione
DEDICATION
I dedicate this book to the nonagenarians in my life who provide wonderful inspirational impact: Dr. Harry Chinchinian, my favorite author, who insists I keep writing; and journalist, Cousin Robert Loeffelbein, who has achieved 1500 publications at age 98. I am inspired by my Aunt Wilma Peterson, who edited and published her mother’s amazing memoirs in Sara’s Story . Dad Rudy Joyce, at eighty-nine is my perfect inventor required to supply all my fictitious family spies with the extraordinary equipment required to match their exceptional skillsets within the dangerous bandwidth of my imagination. Thank you for living your amazing lives as inspirational examples with much accomplishment.
CONTENTS
Illustrations
Cast of Characters
Prologue
Key Virology Definitions
 
Chapter 1       The Nightmare
Chapter 2       Cole’s Big Assignment
Chapter 3       A Ninetieth Birthday
Chapter 4       The Demise of the Grand Chandelier
Chapter 5       Eli’s Coming
Chapter 6       For All the Marbles
Chapter 7       Gabe Flies Solo
Chapter 8       Cassie Calls the Shots
Chapter 9       Hank Finds a Way
Chapter 10     Essie in Disguise
Chapter 11     Inmates Running the Asylum
Chapter 12     Blocked
Chapter 13     Josh and Gabe Break a Leg
Chapter 14     Iz Lays Down the Harley
Chapter 15     Perilous Rescue
Chapter 16     Anne in Tibet
Chapter 17     Bats in the Belfry
Chapter 18     Quinn and Gabe Impress the Dalai Lama
Chapter 19     Cole and Fiona’s Rocky Reunion
Chapter 20     Reincarnation versus Resurrection
Chapter 21     To the Summit
 
Author’s Note to the Reader
Author Kitty Tolsma Anderson
Illustrators Robin Harvey and Elisheva Mechir
Acknowledgements
Glossary
ILLUSTRATIONS
Cover – Robin Harvey
Taking Flight – Elisheva Mechir
SKETCHES
Robin Harvey
1.   In time with the music, Gabriel made his leap to the trampoline and bounced high in the air doing his favorite Mario kicks and landed on Josh’s shoulders.
2.   Cole leaned into the heat and the notecard flamed-up; he dropped it and shut the woodstove door, watching through tempered glass as its secrets to carrying out the dangerous assignment burned to ashes.
3.   The SCIB spy fell over, sprawled out in the road. Gabe aimed next at Asong, but missed and cracked the car windshield instead, alerting the crooks they were all under assault.
4.   Gabriel whispered, “Shangdi ai ni, Baba.” (Yahweh loves you.) Asong’s eyelids fluttered. “See you in the morning, OK? You are going to be OK.” A faint smile forged a kinder look to Asong’s face. Gabe continued, “Yesu ai ni. Wa ai ni.” (Jesus loves you. I love you.)
5.   Lee patted her baby siste r and moved her up and away a bit so sh e could swing her in the mini-hammock within their cocoo n. Lyn’s sounds from within the Egg quieted.
6.   Fiona, still wearing her spattered lab coat, crawled up onto the ornate, yet modest, bed of the Dalai Lama.
CAST OF CHARACTERS
(IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
Pei Wong (Bat Lady) – lead bioweapon researcher of gain-of-function in bat viruses working for the Chinese Communist Regime (CCR)
Fiona ( Chinese alias Huimin) – Kidnapped American virologist who aids Pei in developing bioweapon agents and corresponding vaccines
Geralyn – wife of Warren, murdered by a Sino-Choson-Iranian Bioweapons (SCIB) spy ring
Children of General Ewong – Cora, a Chinese-Filipina teen hired to help as a nanny who is older sister to twin brothers. Their father, Ewong, masterminds and executes Fiona’s abduction
Cole ( alias Dan ) – blue-eyed, 64-year-old microbiologist-spy tasked with infiltrating the Wuhan Institute of Technology; Warren’s youngest son; sports a long platinum beard for disguise
Warren ( alias for Benson Purdy or Pops) – once-famous detective, now a 90-year-old patriarch of a family of detectives and undercover spies; father to sons Hank and Cole Anderson
Hank ( alias David ) – dark complected, 65-year-old eldest son of Warren; computer applications expert and father to his own detective clan of four grown children: Eli, Iz, Essie, and Josh
Gabriel (Gabe, Tibetan alias Choegyal ) – a precocious 8-year-old whose survival instincts serve him well as he outwits the SCIB spy assassination team targeting his great-grandfather, Warren
Cassie – a pharmacist; wife to Warren’s son Hank; Rudy Joyce’s stepdaughter; grandma to Gabe
Essie ( Chinese alias Yisitie ) – blond, brown-eyed daughter of Hank and Cassie; secret CIA agent; swing dance teacher and choreographer; mother to young Gabe and married to Jordan
Eli – project manager for a large, West Coast construction firm and designer of the family’s secret bunkers; dark and closely cropped, curly haired, brown-eyed like his father Hank; the eldest son married to Anne; father to 3-year-old Lee and infant Lyn
Israel (Iz) – blond, bearded, blue-eyed cardiac nurse and buff semi-pro beach volleyball player; gravitates towards combative scenarios during the family’s more dangerous detective activities
Joshua (Josh) – Hank’s brown-haired, brown-eyed, bearded youngest son; chief builder of the family’s secret bunkers; team lead for Eli’s family’s escape; accomplished swing dancer
Anne ( Tibetan alias Gelek ) – wife of Eli and mother to Lee and Lyn; grade school teacher and daughter to Annie who resides on Big Island
Dr. Harry Chinchinian – pathologist, surgeon, and family friend; director of emergency bunker medical unit and pathology department associated with the Anderson clan’s detective pursuits
Rudy Joyce (Dad Rudy) – stepfather to Cassie; expert in multiple engineering venues and whose workshop produces state-of-the art armor, weaponry, and novel aeronautic inventions
Rex Morrison – Fiona’s older brother; portly and accident-prone; Hank & Cole’s life-long chum
Ewong Awong – Chinese communist officer and new lead assassin of SCIB operations; skilled in the use of weaponry, particularly in use of knives; an identical twin to brother Asong
Mrs. Sprues – talkative neighbor who is very generous with delicious chocolate chip cookies
Jordan – avid mountain climber; husband to Essie (Yisitie)
Ting – gangly, accident-prone, SCIB spy ring member
Ewong Asong – Gabe’s biological father; martial arts specialist of the SCIB spy ring; identical twin brother to the evil assassin, Awong
Wei Ling – Chinese pilot; aerial specialist of the SCIB spy ring who is highly allergic to ants
Mrs. Olds – nosy, but supportive, long-time neighbor of the Anderson clan
Riley – Rudy’s young aeronautics specialist residing at the Volcano Hawaii vacay home/bunker
Quinn ( Tibetan alias Chodha ) – nephew of Cassie; provides ground team support for the rescue of Eli’s family; recruited for both flying saucer pilot training and the Tibetan rescue team
Jolee ( Tibetan alias Choejor ) – spunky, 12-year-old recruited to the Tibetan team to find Fiona
Linnea ( Tibetan alias Choden ) – outgoing 12-year-old, Jolee’s best friend; raised in a bilingual home, and whose strong linguistic skills prove essential in the mini-monks’ espionage success
JD & Russ – Cassie’s brothers managing the Family Reunion stage show pyrotechnics
Daniel (Danny Boy) – Apache helicopter pilot stationed at Joint Base; served in Afghanistan