Pandemic! One person stands between pandemic and hope for stopping this nightmare virus… Kirkus Reviews “…A densely plotted thriller that churns out suspenseful scenes… Characters are refreshingly intricate. Protagonist Dave isn’t a flawless hero; he seems to be an obsessive workaholic. The bad guys are even better.” Clue Award finalist for best thriller or mystery. (book 1 of the series) - Winner of the prestigious Writers League of Texas competition for best thriller . Public Offerings continues with Book 3 of this popular thriller series... Revenge! Claire McQuaid has been obsessed by vengeance for decades. Now, as the CEO of a large pharmaceutical firm, she holds the future of the world in her hands. She and powerful associates in banking and oil assemble an ingenious plan designed to wipe out AIDS and malaria…or so it appears. The real mission is far more sinister. Millions of innocent people will be sacrificed in a manmade pandemic to accomplish the vengeful plot behind the plan. There’s one hitch: Dave Clement… Survival! Dave has dedicated his career to wiping out AIDS. Claire needs his network and skills to execute her grand scheme. Dave's conscience won't allow it. So Claire forces Dave to make a choice no father ever wants to face: keep her secret and help the pandemic advance unimpeded – or lose Liv, his 15 year old daughter, to the very disease he set out to eradicate. This breathtaking roller coaster ride ascends the snowy peaks of northern Colorado and hurtles through the rainforests of West Africa as Claire and her associates drive their new world order forward. With everything that ever mattered to him on the line, Dave races the clock to outwit the powerful plotters and to save Liv. Public Offerings is available as a four book thriller series. This title, Killer Priest , is Book Three. Public Offerings and the Coronavirus Pandemic: With the Coronavirus outbreak (Covid-19) currently rampaging through the world, the Public Offerings thriller series suggests a glimpse into the kind of scenarios that might be played out in an age of human-engineered microbes. Not saying that Covid-19 is one. A pandemic thriller might just an interesting distraction while we wait for this scourge to pass. In the real world, please take our government officials, health officials, and doctors very seriously at this time. The well-being of all of us may rely on it. Whatever its origins, the Covid-19 Coronavirus is very real and the pandemic outbreak very dangerous to many of us. With the Public Offerings pandemic conspiracy series,Bob LiVolsi won the Writers League of Texas manuscript contest for bestthriller. Public Offerings was also a Clue Award Finalistfor best thriller or mystery. Bob is President of Vaccine Research, LLC, with a patent and patents pending to increase the reach of immunizations in the less developed world. He seeks to improve quality of life and contribute to efforts to get ahead of pandemics before they happen. He is one of a team ofadvisors with PandemicTech which is developing an ecosystem for innovations toadvance global health security and solve the challenge of pandemic disease such as coronavirus. Bob completed advanced studies at Instead University in Fontainebleau, France,and Stanford University. He has a certificate in vaccinology from thePasteur Institute in Paris. As a journalist and editor of theDaily Kent Stater at Kent State University. Bob won the national SearsCongressional Internship for his investigation of racial tension on campus. He went on to staff work in Congress with the SenateJudiciary Committee. An executive on teams that took two companiespublic, Bob experienced the mercenary world of high-stakesinvestment. As a VP at Hewlett Packard and in other roles, he traveled the world partnering withlarge corporations, governments, and NGOs. He mentored a vaccine company in the National ScienceFoundation's Innovation Corps program. He and his wife's support of missions in the Middle East, Africa and CentralAmerica brought him closer to the daily challenges of disease,poverty, war and tyranny. Bob's vision for Public Offerings beganwith communication with a missionary priest in Sierra Leone. Through the priest, Bob learned of horrors not yet reported in the westernpress. The priest disappeared, assumed killed. He is theinspiration for Fr. Jim Reilly in the series. Bob lives with his wife in Austin, TX, continuing efforts to help improve health systems. He starts most days writing.