Steven Canley

Uncertain Origin Steven Canley

Sixty-eight- year-old Emma Rowan lies in a Minneapolis hospital room, fighting for her life. All because she pricked her hand, trimming a Lenten rose.

On the north side of the city, Jeremy Cole opens a new project for a small law firm. Jeremy is a middleman, offering convenient and flexible collection of evidence for a handful of local attorneys. His company, Global ESI survived the last recession on a steady stream of copyright infringements, employment disputes and the occasional high profile divorce case.

When a routine file and email collection spirals out of control, Jeremy descends into a web of international crime and deceit. His search for answers takes him from a crooked medical wholesaler in Minneapolis to the jungles of Malaysia. A place where criminals can invest a thousand dollars in heroin and make twenty thousand in profit or, make four hundred thousand by dealing in counterfeit drugs.

Uncertain Origin is a spell binding account of a very real threat. According to the FBI, the counterfeiting of pharmaceuticals accounts for an estimated $600 billion in global trade, and may be the "crime of the 21st century."

A high-stakes tale of international crime and intrigue, Uncertain Origin is the debut novel to feature electronic evidence specialist Jeremy Cole and Dr. Nora Galloway.