Kindle Edition Amazon SWARM THEORY BY E. W. SULLIVAN Category:  Action/Thriller Publisher: Ten Talents ISBN-10:  0988758407 Type: Fiction Pages: 494 Copyright: May 1, 2016 ISBN-13: 9780988758407 Price: $0.99 (eBook) Criminal profiler Dr. Thelonious Zones wants to believe his father didn’t kill his mother. What stops him from believing is the twenty-five years to life his father received for her murder. Criminal profiler Dr. Thelonious Zones wants to believe his father didn’t kill his mother. What stops him from believing is the twenty-five years to life his father received for her murder. Zones’ avuncular employer and father’s best friend, Sam Drake, defends his innocence. Zones sets out to find the truth to this twenty-four year old question, but his search is interrupted when he is forced to investigate the death of a young Arab college student and the series of bombings engulfing a small southern town. Zones’ theory and profile of the perpetrator are questioned by law enforcement when events change and new suspects emerge. The trail to the truth will lead Zones through a thicket of well-guarded secrets and childhood memories that cause him to question what he believes about how the world truly works

Good yarn...action progresses across the United States and across the world from Atlanta...and back!
Dr, Thelonious “Monk” Zones, a consulting criminal profiler, is in the wrong place at the wrong time when he tries to stop an apparent rape attempt and is injured by an explosion that levels an animal shelter and an old Chinese restaurant nearby. He is doubly in the wrong place at the wrong time when the Decatur Police decides to hire him to consult on the case. The case has good points. For example, working with Detectives Marmaduke and Rome; and bad points, for example working with Captain Franklin, an ass-kissing politician, and having case facts that refuse to fit his well drawn profile. It also interferes with Zones’ efforts to investigate his own mother’s death, at least until a key piece of evidence from his mother’s case turns up in the current case.

In a story that spans rape, terrorism, bomb-making, animal rights crimes and a few other genre, Zones, Marmaduke, and Rome relentlessly pursue the bad buys from the Atlanta metropolitan area across the United States and the world-until they learn the motive is simple old greed.

Swarm Theory is full of twists and complexity. It is very long involved story and while it is an excellent story it suffers from it’s length and complexity dragging in places. The characters are well developed and complex. It’s easy for readers to like the good guys and dislike the bad guys-at least once they figure out who the bad guys really are.

Swarm Theory is a wonderful book for those who love conspiracy theories, police procedural and crime action novels and anyone who wants a good adventure. Be warned it’s a long but worthwhile read.