An Upward Draft: (Book Two of the FugueTrilogy)

After erasing himself from his family life in a quiet California suburb, Richard disappears into the vineyards of a remote South American wine estate, where the mysterious and flamboyant Madame offers him an impossible deal: protection in exchange for obedience.

Under her watchful eye, Richard is stripped down and rebuilt. Mind, body, and conscience are reshaped to serve a covert organization guided by a chilling belief: sometimes a little evil can do a great deal of good.

When Richard is sent on his first mission to southwest France, he expects a simple test of his new skills.

Instead, he finds himself caught in the early tremors of a global health crisis-and in a web of secrets far more dangerous than Madame ever warned him.

Soon he must choose-between the man he was and the man Madame created.

An Upward Draft follows the hero of A Feeble Drift on the second stage of his transformative journey but is written as a stand-alone novel.