Directional Warning

"I'm calling Joseph Whaley the 'Tom Clancy' of the drug novel
. . . he really shows the reader the inside of drug trafficking." 
- Bill Atkins, R.Ph., Director of the Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency 

"Can't believe this is the work of a first time author! . . . the details from their (the drug cartel's) viewpoint of how they set up their distribution network was extremely interesting ." 
- Rick Allen, R.Ph., Assistant Director Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency, and past president of the International Narcotics Enforcement Officers Association 

     When U.S. President Edward D. Walters discovers that he has contracted an incurable disease, he is determined that his Vice President will follow him in office and that the Republican Party will retain control of the White House. Walters initiates a new federal drug interdiction agency to serve both as his personal legacy and as the Vice President's stepping stone into the Oval Office. Both the Vice President and the Director of the newly created drug agency face incredible odds against their success. 
The Vice President's foremost political nemesis, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, is the 'chosen one' of the national media. But for a dark secret in his past which threatens to end both his candidacy and his political career, the election of the Vice President's arrogant opponent seems all but assured. 
The drug agency's Director must defeat the Caribbean Cartel's never before attempted scheme to smuggle cocaine across the U.S. border, and expose and halt the efforts of a U.S. Federal intelligence agent whose double life serves to undermine America's war against drugs. 
     Directional Warning follows the political careers of the two Presidential candidates as they vie for office, and the interdiction efforts of the newly created federal drug agency. An unexpected disclosure affects the Presidential election, while an unlikely turn of events leads the Director to Florida and to the Cartel's cocaine pipeline.
     Directional Warning is a purely fictional yet educational narrative of politics, drama, romance, and tragedy with a touch of southern colloquial humor