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The Virtual Trail
An FBI Mystery Thriller
Series: The Sean Kruger Series
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A dead student. A missing laptop. A President's desperate call. Sean Kruger thought retirement meant peace. Then a brilliant MIT student dies in a mysterious hit-and-run. The President needs answers, and Kruger is the only one he trusts to find them. The student's algorithm could predict...
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See moreHe left the bureau behind. The nation's fate pulls him back in. Former FBI profiler Sean Kruger thought retirement meant peace. Then a brilliant MIT student with an algorithm capable of controlling elections dies in a suspicious hit-and-run. The President needs answers, and Kruger is the only one he trusts to find them. Can he expose the truth before America fractures?
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A dead student. A missing laptop. A President's desperate call.
Sean Kruger thought retirement meant peace. Then a brilliant MIT student dies in a mysterious hit-and-run. The President needs answers, and Kruger is the only one he trusts to find them.
The student's algorithm could predict every vote, control every election. Someone killed for it. Someone powerful enough to make people disappear. As Kruger digs deeper, bodies surface. Each clue points to a conspiracy that reaches into the highest offices.
Then an old enemy emerges from the shadows. Now Kruger hunts two killers—one for justice, one for revenge.
The missing laptop holds secrets that could tear the nation apart. Time slips away. Democracy hangs by a thread.
The Virtual Trail forces Kruger to face an impossible choice: save himself or save his country. Some trails lead to truth. Others lead to treason.
Praise for the Sean Kruger Series
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The story is fast-paced with many twists and turns that will glue readers to the chair...
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is an amazing thriller that grabbed hold and kept me glued to the pages until the very end.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I love the Sean Kruger series. This story is fast-moving, tense, edge-of-your-seat.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ An outstanding book. Lots of twists and turns.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This author keeps me awake nights with his awesome works.
Series: The Sean Kruger Series
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The Virtual Trail
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781036706531
Publisher: Vinci Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 August 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vinci Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 384
About the Author
J.C. Fields is a multi-award-winning and Amazon best-selling author. Many of his 12 published novels have been awarded numerous gold, silver and bronze medals in the Reader's Favorite International Book Awards contest. In March of 2020, his book, A Lone Wolf became a #1 Best Selling Audiobook. The second book in the series, The Last Insurgent, gained Amazon's #1 New Release status in January 2021.His novel, The Ominous Trail, is currently under review by Wind Dancer Films for a possible TV or Movie project. The ninth book in the Sean Kruger Series, The Manchurian's Trail, will be published Spring 2024 through Paperback-Press.He lives with his wife, Connie, in Southwest Missouri.
Also by J.C. Fields
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The Fugitive's Trail
A Wall Street murder, a suspect who doesn't exist, and a billion-dollar firm where truth is not company policy. FBI Special Agent Sean Kruger doesn't like any aspect of his new case. Witness accounts of the murder are suspiciously identical, and the suspect, now on the run, does not exist in any records. Kruger finds himself chasing a ghost, armed...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Assassin's Trail
A string of assassinations. A nation on edge. An FBI profiler racing to stop a deadly conspiracy. When a prominent businessman is gunned down, Homicide Detective Ryan Clark turns to FBI profiler Sean Kruger for help. Kruger, ready to retire, is reluctant to get involved—until the assassin strikes again in his own city. Defying orders, Kruger tracks the killer to...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Cold Trail
The past doesn't die. It waits. Sean Kruger thought teaching would be safer than the FBI. Then a student vanishes from his campus. The method matches a cold case that still haunts him—six women, four colleges, zero bodies. A case he couldn't solve. JR Diminski finds a fingerprint in the digital dark. A ghost from 1999 leaves traces in 2023....Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Dark Trail
The dead can't retire. Sean Kruger will have to wait. FBI profiler Sean Kruger plans to retire. Then someone kills FBI Deputy Director Alan Seltzer on a bike trail. The murder matches others. All victims are black men in power. All deaths look like accidents. Kruger has two weeks until retirement. The killer knows this. Bodies pile up. Evidence disappears....Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Imposter's Trail
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The Ominous Trail
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