Glenda Lawson believes her husband was the only U.S. serviceman shot and killed on American soil during World War II. But in 1945, investigators ruled that Billy Lawson died in a €œmugging turned ugly.€Â
Sean O€Brien is learning the ropes of commercial fishing when he gets his anchor caught on something underwater. He discovers a German U-boat partially buried in sand, and inside is a frightening cargo. The media pick up the story, and a 35-year-old woman who has a haunting tale, visits O€Brien. Her grandfather, Billy Lawson, was fishing one night on a Florida beach when he saw something very disturbing.
THE BLACK BULLET is a thriller that combines an unsolved murder from 1945 to a modern-day discovery connected to America€s entry into nuclear weapons, the Manhattan Project.
The last thing Sean O€Brien wants is to investigate a sixty-seven-year-old murder. But Billy Lawson€s granddaughter and his cancer-stricken widow are desperate for closure. For O€Brien to bring it to them he has to pry the lid off a secret buried with the Manhattan Project. It€s information that got Billy Lawson killed, and O€Brien soon learns the old murder and his new discovery at the bottom of the sea are inextricably knotted. O€Brien is thrust into a world where nothing is as it appears, and everything is riding on a secret Billy Lawson took to his grave.