"Akel Dama" means "Field of Blood"

An aged ex-airliner loaded with five tons of marijuana lands on a newly built, but unpaved, section of roadbed in rural central Mississippi. Apprehended by the local sheriff, the pilot refused to shut down the idling engines. With a call to aviation consultant Jay Leicester (pronounced "Lester"), for help, the sheriff brings our protagonist into a situation that leads to his involvement with the CIA, terrorists who plan to set off a nuclear device in the United Stantes and the deaths of his closest friends.

A work of international intrigue with connections to the Middle East, to South America, to south Florida, and rural Mississippi, this is a powerful story of determined men and women exposed to horror beyond their control. Akel Dama is above all a novel about decency, good and evil, about courage we build inside ourselves to govern our behavior and how that courage is eroded - one of the strongest novels yet from one of the South's most admired and prolific writers and the next-to-last book in Simmons' Jay Leicester Mysteries series.

"Now this man purchased a field with the wages of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his entrails gushed out. And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem; so that field is called in their own language, Akel Dama, that is, Field of Blood."

There are 10 ebooks in the Jay Leicester Mysteries Series by JC Simmons:

Blood on the Vine
Some People Die Quick
Blind Overlook
Icy Blue Descent
The Electra File
Popping the Shine
Four Nines Fine
The Underground Lady
Akel Dama
The Candela of Cancri

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• Publication Date: January 11, 2014
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