The Event

A lone figure approaches the New York Stock Exchange in broad
daylight,his face painted like a reptile.He shrugs off his
trench coat to reveal the silver canisters and high-pressure
dispersion system strapped to his back.With an expulsion of
gas, the screams of the living metamorphose into the screams
of the dying.

FBI Special Agent Renee Lawton leads the investigation, for
she has a unique insight into the event.It is part of a lar-
ger conspiracy, at the heart of which is the oldest and most
insidious of motives:greed.She learns that not only is the
love of money the root of all evil, but that some people will
go to any lengths to amass it.

In an unapologetic business where avarice and deceit are vir-
tues and the deadliest sin is complacency, Lawton discovers
the old adage is true...

"Buy when there´s blood in the streets,even if that blood
is your own"

Elemental Series #17