Nathanial Blue, freelance trouble shooter, gets a contract from an unnamed government agency to drop into Mexico, find and rescue a Hungarian scientist who may have the secret of interstellar space travel, and haul him back to the relative safety of the USA. What Blue doesn’t know, until it is almost too late to matter, is that the government agency that hired him is almost as dirty as the bad guys on the other side, and that he is not meant to make it back alive. “A fast-paced adventure thriller set in the near future in Mexico, The Lazarus Drop combines the old “Sam Spade” narrative with modern technology. Nathaniel Blue, the hero, steals the show with his good/bad guy, very human personality . . . I fell in love with Blue; I hope we haven’t seen the last of him.” — S. Joan Popek, Reviewer “Nathaniel Blue is a strong hero (who is) totally aware of his faults, and he seems to enjoy the havoc they sometimes wreak—the more challenges the better.” — Jamie Engle, eBook Connections