The Silver Falchion Award winner for best thriller at the 2020 Killer Nashville International Writers Conference.
America's darling three-year-old Thoroughbred, Hyperion, is injured in a Kentucky Derby qualifying race. Mark Thurman and Claire Hodgson are asked to treat his fractured leg using their revolutionary methods but, when experimental subjects develop life-threatening complications the horse's prognosis turns bleak. Claire travels to a remote laboratory to meet with the woman who has made a pharmaceutical discovery that offers hope. When the drug formula and the two scientists vanish, Thurman enlists retired Navy SEAL sniper John Bristow, who assembles an elite rescue team that race to pick up the trail. A CEO and a drug lord plan to market the blockbuster and seal Hyperion's fate.
