RANCHO CORDOVA, CA (MPG) - DM Coffman’s newest novel in the Net thriller series, The Panama Contagion, expands and updates the reader’s COVID-19 experience far and up close to the United States through an insider’s perspective into China’s complex, technical, military and political spheres.

The Cordova High graduate, a survivor of several coronaviruses in her years living there, follows the suspenseful and inspiring survival of a family navigating during the turmoil unleashed from biochemical assailants and how it ultimately shaped their family relationships−and intensified romantic life−earning the book 5 stars from Readers’ Favorite.

Book reviewer Viga Boland said, “When you read a book as intricately plotted, with as many characters and as much technical and political information as depicted in The Panama Contagion, you wonder how the author knows so much about China.”

Coffman captures the vision of career Americans abroad and returning home, drawing from her experience of working in China. She says that her inspiration “did not come as a result of current events. It has been 19 years in the making.” She gathers extensive insight into how another great nation handles international hostilities present, and perhaps future, from the author’s first-hand experience of hospitalizations, restrictive measures and how government cover-ups impact world populations.

In her former capacity as an editor and consultant, Coffman’s breath of erudition and knowledge played an important role in informing China’s Ministry of Education, aiding in the publication of educational texts and now brings this very relevant, revealing information to America’s fictional readership.

Coffman’s time teaching law in China for the World Trade Organization gained her the staggering technical specialization and understanding to the existing global pandemic. By way of the Judicial Training Program for university students at Peking University with Brigham Young University, she has been influencing and been influenced by China’s next generation, adding new themes for the novel’s fresh and suspenseful development.

The Panama Contagion helps the reader visualize, compare and contrast how great nations strive to control and react in emergencies and the international theater. There is a great deal of interest in this topic considering the present situation especially for those wanting to remember a writer who still considers Rancho Cordova her home.