Judas Horse: An FBI Special Agent Ana Grey Mystery

Maverick FBI Agent Ana Grey is back in a suspense-charged new novel, going undercover into the volatile core of a terrorist cell.

Emotionally vulnerable after a shooting incident, Ana has just returned to the job when she learns that a fellow agent has been murdered by a group of hard-core anarchists operating behind the fa§ade of FAN (Free Animals Now). Dispatched to the FBI€s infamous undercover school to learn the art of deceit, Ana takes on the identity of a down-on-her-luck animal lover determined to save the wild mustangs of the West. Now she€s ready to work her way into the inner circle of Julius Emerson Phelps, the unstable, charismatic leader of a €œfamily€ of outcasts who live on an isolated farm in Oregon, and who are preparing an act of terrorism Phelps has dubbed €œthe Big One.€

The stakes increase significantly when Ana learns that Phelps is playing his own game of dangerous deception, and that he possesses a stockpile of dirty secrets about the Bureau sufficient to blow it sky-high.

With razor-sharp realism, Smith renders the psychological vise of a deep-cover agent living a lie 24/7. Negotiating a minefield of loyalty and betrayal, under constant threat of discovery, Ana is forced to commit the very crime she€s determined to stop.

Judas Horse is a breathlessly exciting thriller.