FBI CODE NAME: Deadly Deception (Murder in Monterey): A Special Agent Del Dickerson Novel (Special Agent Del Dickerson Novels)

FBI Special Agent Del Dickerson, studying Korean at the Foreign Language Institute in Monterey, California, is assigned to protect a Chinese professor targeted for assassination. Classmate Hu Shang, a Taiwanese Army officer becomes the main suspect. Alarmingly, Anna Chen, Del's beautiful Amerasian fiancée is a suspected accomplice. Mystery escalates with the murder of a look-alike professor at a blacked-out reception, followed by the poisoning of the victim's flirtatious wife. Complicating Del's frenetic investigation is reentry into his life of a former girlfriend with matrimonial intentions. Action soars with a million-dollar ransom demand, culminating in a bizarre scene of debauchery in a San Francisco Nob Hill hideout. Del's ingenuity and the explosive arrival of an FBI SWAT team save kidnap victims from imminent death. Faith, trust and investigative perseverance triumph! DEADLY DECEPTION, Murder in Monterey, delivers a thrilling read.

Jim Healy is a 32-year FBI veteran who pursued spies and bank robbers before directing the famed Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Program at J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Headquarters. A Detroit native, Navy veteran, and Michigan State Journalism graduate, he writes with knowledge and humor about some of the colorful characters he encountered before retiring to his retreat on Virginia's Chesapeake Bay.