Whiplash by Catherine Coulter, an FBI Thriller Novel

Catherine Coulter is a New York Times best-selling author, she is known for her historical suspense crime novels. Whiplash, a supernatural thriller full of tension, is the fourteenth instalment of Coulter’s FBI series.



Erin Pulaski, a private investigator, is hired by a Yale professor whose father suffers from cancer to have a close look at a murky business of Germany’s Schiffer Hartwin Pharmaceutical. The company presumably holds back a cheap yet effective cancer medicine so that ill people buy a much more expensive one. Erin breaks into the office of the company’s CEO and hacks his computer, she prints the data she finds, she is almost caught red handed but she flees in the last moment, unseen.
Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, a married couple and FBI special agents also investigate this crime, the two team up with Erin.
In the meanwhile Senator David Hoffmann is visited by his deceased wife in his bedroom; the two special agents work on the case, too. They find out that the apparition wants to warn her once husband of a threatening danger…
Fortunately, fortunately, hardly some traces and hints of romance can be found in this book – I am grateful for that. Catherine Coulter blessedly sticks with an intriguing, fast-paced, brilliant plot and suspense.

Description and Summary of Whiplash:
In Coulter's fab 14th FBI paranormal romantic thriller (after KnockOut), FBI special agents Dillon Savich and his wife, Lacey Sherlock, look into the possible haunting of a U.S. senator by his dead wife as well as a more earthly crime: Germany's Schiffer Hartwin Pharmaceutical, which has its U.S. headquarters in Connecticut, might be deliberately withholding an inexpensive cancer fighting drug, Culovort, to force cancer patients to require the far more expensive Eloxium, in short supply. The FBI probe dovetails with one by PI and part-time ballet teacher Erin Pulaski, who's hired by a Yale professor worried about his cancer-stricken father being affected by the shortage. In a wild coincidence, Bowie Richards, the FBI special agent in charge of the New Haven field office, also hires Erin—to babysit his daughter, a ballet student of hers. The attraction between Bowie and Erin grows as they help Dillon and Lacey crack a complicated double case. Coulter fans will want to see more of this new crime-fighting duo. (June)