Deadly Passage

Andy Reiss, a physician, Jesse his registered-nurse wife, and their daughter, Rachael, head home on their sailboat, Prophecy, after five years of sailing around the world. When Prophecy comes upon a sailboat adrift, they rescue two young Americans, a brother and his sister. After bringing them aboard, both brother and sister break out with a rash. Andy identifies the rash as a deadly virus, and realizes that he has inadvertently rescued two homegrown terrorists intent on bringing a deadly virus to the Miami area.Soon the disease is full-blown, sealing the fates of the terrorists and all those they encounter.Andy, Jesse, and Rachel must deal with the unwanted guests, their disease, the Cuban Navy, and an approaching hurricane. When things can’t seem to get any worse, the U.S. Coast Guard turns the Reiss family away from safety, operating under the influence of conflicting political and operational motivations in the Department of Homeland Security, the Coast Guard, and the oval office.Exploring the conflicting and complicated motivations of terrorists and governmental agencies, Deadly Passage is a multi-layered, high seas adventure-thriller of bioterrorism in a post 9/11 world. Overview: Lawrence W. Gold, MD is a retired physician. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War where he served in an evacuation hospital, ran an emergency room and was a Battalion Surgeon. He completed his training in internal medicine and diseases of the kidney in 1968.