Book excerpt: KIFO A Killer With Awesome Power. A Motive Of Terrifying Reality. A murderer is targeting white police officers. The killer leaves no forensic evidence of any kind at the crime scene, just the unearthly sound of his weapon and the body of the victim-- with a vaporized head. The only clue police have is an eyewitness who believes he caught a glimpse of the killer, a man wearing a dark hood. Jamal Weathers is a Black FBI agent and one of the Bureau’s top behavioral experts. He has followed the suspect across three states, trying to stop the assassin’s next attack. When Jamal discovers that all of the slain officers bear the names of Black victims of police shootings, it is clear that the killer is a vigilante dedicated to retribution. And in the inner cities, the killer’s sigil appears as graffiti, on t-shirts and on the Internet. It is the outline of a hood, accompanied by the name “Kifo,” the Swahili word for death. In the thick of the case, Jamal comes to a startling, but inescapable conclusion: the murderer and his deadly weapon and technology are either not of our time, or not of this world. Jamal locates his prey, a nightmare incarnation of Ellison’s Invisible Man, only to be captured and face a choice he never imagined: carry on the killer’s work, or die. KIFO X MOTO The lethal vigilante returns, with an even deadlier partner. Cleo Capone is a brilliant girl traumatized by racial oppression. She cleverly tracks down Kifo and he agrees to train her in the new unit called the 120. Together, they continue to bring retribution for racial murder, and the nation is paralyzed with fear. But in the Black community the pair are revered and called Kifo x Moto, which in the native tongue means “Death and Fire.” Cleo harbors a terrible secret, and soon the power of the suit and the quest consume her, and she becomes more deadly than her teacher, and more dedicated to destruction than justice. Cleo plans a daring execution, one that will end the race question forever in America but at a bloody cost. Ultimately, the power they wield, determines there can only be one.