Desert Storm Heart: A Novel of Chicago Streets

Have you ever been trapped between two tough worlds? Desert Storm Heart is a crime thriller focused on the aftermath of the murders and rapes of several young girls in Kuwait during Desert Storm. Will Koehn, an NCIS investigator, looks into the slayings but never locates the killer. Later, he returns to the United States and subsequently becomes a Homicide detective for the Chicago Police Department. Soon after he becomes a Homicide, a murder and rape occurs in Chicago, and the killer's MO matches that of the girls murdered in Kuwait. The killer has followed Will home. It's time to crawl out of the sand and back onto the streets....

Author Bio

Thomas Laird has published five novels: Cutter (2001), Season of the Assassin (2003), Black Dog (2004), Voices of the Dead (2006), and The Underground Detective (2012). The books received favorable reviews from the Washington Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, The Independent on Sunday (UK) and Crime Time (UK). Thomas Laird lives with his wife near Germantown Hills, Illinois.