Black Rain

In the drowned streets of post-hurricane New Orleans, something far more lethal than floodwater is rising. When an armored transport is ambushed and a mysterious refrigerated container labeled Seraphim vanishes, Nick Gatlin and his partner Maria Ramirez are drawn into a deadly conspiracy rooted in Cold War secrets. What was supposed to be just another robbery spirals into a mystery involving a defunct bioweapons program, a missing scientist, and a killer from Nick's past-the ruthless ex-CIA operative known only as The Phantom.
As they dig deeper, Nick and Maria uncover a chilling plot to unleash a neurological virus capable of selective collapse-a reset for humanity, engineered by a shadowy syndicate. With FEMA investigator Marla Leclerc, whose loyalties are anything but clear, they must race against time to stop a bioterrorist apocalypse before it begins beneath the haunted ruins of the Old Ursuline Convent. Explosive, atmospheric, and utterly gripping, Black Rain is a high-stakes thriller where the line between truth and conspiracy is as murky as the floodwaters rising in the Ninth District.