Clean Christian suspense: ordinary people caught in trouble far larger than themselves, in settings Eric Wright knows first-hand — Toronto and the Ganaraska hills, Pakistan, the Pacific coast, the Georgia sea islands.
The Josh Radley Series
A Toronto feature writer who grew up as a missionary kid in Pakistan, and whose work keeps dragging him back toward the things he left behind. Read them in order, or don’t — each stands on its own.
The Lightning File
First Josh Radley novel — suspense based on tomorrow's headlines
A cadre of terrorists plots a four-pronged attack that could devastate America, and the only man positioned to uncover it is Toronto Times writer Josh Radley — whose own marriage is coming apart in his hands. A cryptic code in Urdu and Arabic sits at the centre of it, a nuclear plant east of Toronto among the targets, and the whole thing turns on how much press freedom survives an age obsessed by terrorism.
Captives of Minara
Second Josh Radley novel
Josh returns reluctantly to Pakistan — scene of a childhood trauma — expecting to write about a 4,500-year-old Indus city being lifted out of the desert. He finds sabotage, theft, kidnapping and murder, and a gang willing to smuggle anything for money, women and children included. The action runs from the dig site along the canals, through the bazaars, and onto a first-class carriage of the Khyber Mail.
Rust Bucket
Third Josh Radley novel
An old freighter beaches in a storm on Vancouver Island carrying explosives, drugs, and a human cargo bound for brothels, farms and factories — among them Chandi, a tribal girl Josh and Stephanie know. Josh cancels his cancer treatment to reach the story first, and keeps on cancelling it as the trail leads into the trafficking trade in Seattle and Vancouver.
Also by Eric E. Wright
Riptide
Idyllic island · deadly peril
Ashlyn Forsyth arrives on St. Simons Island believing she and Craig have come to rescue their marriage. He hands her divorce papers instead and drives off with a colleague — pursued, she soon discovers, by the Russian mafia and investigated by the FBI. Stranded, broke and harassed, she finds unexpected footing in the company of a shrimp boat captain.