Only Hell Burns Hotter by Brian H. Williams

About the book

Having just participated in their sorority's Fall Fashion Show held in a local park, two university freshmen were kidnapped. One of them was the daughter of the Chief of Security at the Royal Danish Consulate in Chicago. When progress on the case appeared dead-ended, a desperate COS Andersens immediately contacted a friend for assistance.

Defense Department Intelligence Command's Admiral Rebecca Remarke, recalling how Andersens had saved two of her operative's lives in Hanoi, would eagerly help. She assigned one of her teams, 217, to investigate the case.

Capt. Brad Graham and Sgt. Greg Palmer initially traveled to the scene to interview parents and friends of the missing coeds. With the diligent sleuthing of yeoman-secretary, TSgt. Fran Farr, they soon began to follow the money. The trail of credit card transactions led from Chicago to Carlsbad, California, where it abruptly ended.

Circumstances in the case, caused DDIC Team 217 to suspect that the two young women had been hapless victims of the white slavery trade. Graham and Palmer traveled to gather intelligence in Bangkok and Timbuktu. Their efforts ultimately took them to Indonesia and finally to Jamaica. There, assisted by personal friends, in fact resident operatives of the International Security Agency, they unearthed a malicious ring of white slave traders.

In a joint DDIC/ISA operation, the surveillance and infiltration of a heavily guarded slaver compound, located outside of Kingston, were successfully carried out. In the dangerous process, a highly organized ring of international marketers of human flesh was very literally obliterated. Fortuitously, the very two sorority sisters originally sought were among the twenty-six young females rescued.

Following medical care and treatment, along with the willing aid of International Red Cross personnel, each of the salvaged victims was safely returned to her family.

About the author

Williams, Brian H. - Born on August 18, 1942, in New Brunswick, NJ, to parents John H. and Althea M. Williams, he grew up in nearby Edison.

After graduating from Highland Park High School (in H.P., NJ), and attending Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, WV, for several years, he proudly served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War (1965-1967) and, when honorably discharged, he held the rank of Sp-5.

He was married to Lee Becker and they have three sons: Brian Jonathan, Paul Becker, and Christopher Michael.

Transferring to the Ohio State University in Columbus, he graduated with a BS degree in Chemistry (1969). Then, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as NDEA Title IV Fellow and Teaching Assistant, he earned a PhD degree in Organic Chemistry (1974).

After a 27-year career with the 3M Company in St. Paul, MN, in both Central Research and Specialty Film Divisions, he retired in 2001 as a Research Specialist.

Brian has had some public speaking experience (i.e. presented graduate research at the 1973 Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy in San Diego, CA, and gave many research review talks throughout his 3M employment).

Writing has always been a passion for him - (even reflected in his final years at 3M, having responsibility to produce the project team's coating run reports). He received Honorable Mention in the "Summer 2001 Iliad Literary Awards Program" and the "President's Award for Literary Excellence 2002" (for poetry).

He has recently started researching and writing the eighth in a continuing series of U.S. military intelligence, action/adventure genre novels, Power Grab being the first in the chronologically unfolding series.