Fractured

Book synopsis:A truck traveling north near the Mexican border was required to stop for a security check by the Mexican Army. As the soldiers approached, the driver, without a word, suddenly committed suicide. The shocked soldiers then opened the back of the truck only to find it was full of twenty-eight assassinated human bodies and a strange cargo of illegal drugs.When they discovered that three of the bodies were Americans, and one of them was a diplomat, the U. S. Secretary of State asked the Navy Special Investigation Unit to work with a brilliant young Congresswoman and the FBI to find out what was the reason for it all and who was responsible.The investigation followed an unusual trail, leading to a violent Mexican Cartel, illegal smuggling and export of opium, and the construction of an unknown project just ten miles south of the U.S. border.As the search for an explanation progressed, some very unusual connections with people in Mexico, Germany, Cuba, Russia, and India, began to surface. As question after question just kept throwing the search off the track, the investigators kept finding strange answers.But when they looked at everything together, it seemed to lead to a potentially dangerous extortion project that might bring down the American banking system and destroy the U.S. economy.Autobiography:Richard B. Christie had a long career, where he owned and operated a company that commissioned, validated, and certified commercial and industrial environmental air distribution systems that included many Clean Rooms for Hospitals, Research Laboratories, and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing facilities. Both domestic and international, it included many years of traveling and working abroad. For more than 50 years, when at home, he spent many winter weekends volunteering in mountain rescue efforts as an active Certified Patroller and National Ski Patrol member. Now retired, he has found the time to write exciting stories of mystery and adventure that bring the reader to many far-off places worldwide. As an avid fan of America's history, he also does historical reenactment at several National Parks and Monuments as a volunteer to help bring history alive for the many visitors to the National Park Service.Christie and his wife Lee currently reside in Florida with several rescued dogs that they have adopted.