OCEAN OF FEAR - (The Cruise FBI Thriller Series Book 1)

Book excerpt: Meet Baxter Cruise. Gifted robotics student. Spammer for hire. His cozy world of lattes and free wi-fi explodes when a hippie professor disappears, and Baxter discovers a lady professor's warm corpse on campus. With his secretive lifestyle, he hasn't cultivated any real friends. When a student asks for help with a class assignment, Baxter figures it'll throttle his funk. But the guy blackmails Baxter into programming narcotics delivery vehicles for a notorious cartel. Working for drug lords rattles the needle on Baxter's errant moral compass, but it's better than a bullet in the head. Beautiful FBI agent Claudia Seagal tracks the professor's brutal assassin, but every angle of her investigation leads to Baxter. He's hiding something and in far too deep to cooperate with the law. Baxter ignores the cartel's depravity until he watches an innocent woman die. When he wakes up on a plane, it's too late for remorse. In bed with dangerous allies, the cartel requires Baxter's talent until the robots are complete. Then, he and thousands of others face certain death unless Baxter can find a way to escape.