Bug the Dead by Tim Downs coming this fall!

Coming in September from Thomas Nelson is Tim Downs' next "Bug Man" novel. We've snagged a summary to wet your appetite!

Summary:

Smuggled insects are at the root of the Bug Man's troubles in this latest suspense novel from award-winning author Tim Downs.

Dr. Nick Polchak is called to a farm community in eastern North Carolina to investigate a murder. The victim is the owner of a failing organic farm who had developed a drug problem, and the police suspect his murder was drug-related.

Nick finds the remains of a bale of marijuana scattered in the tomato fields--but the marijuana seems to be strangely infested with a common North Carolina insect: the tobacco hornworm. To further confound the mystery, the South American marijuana was infected with bugs from North Carolina that were infected with a fungus from Asia. The man wasn't killed because of the marijuana, but because of the insects it contained.

Nick discovers that a vicious agricultural scheme is underway to cripple the U.S.'s corn and ethanol production. But just how far will these terrorists go in their quest?

Read our interview with Tim Downs
Read our review of First The Dead
Read our review of Less Than Dead

What's next for author Tim Downs?

This just in...

Tim Downs' next Bugman novel is going to be called Bug The Dead. It releases in the summer of 2009. Word has it that the character Alena (from Less Than Dead) makes a comeback ... as does Kathryn Guilford, the main female lead from Tim's first novel Shoofly Pie.

Should make for interesting reading!

Read our review of Less Than Dead here.
Read our review of First the Dead here.