The six years Traci Hunter Abramson spent as a CIA officer out of college gave her plenty of material for political thriller novels.

Abramson has a catalog of 45 books. The latest, “Victim #8,” will be released on Oct. 7.

The story follows Luke Steele, a military aide, who goes undercover with FBI special agent Aberlyn Reiner to investigate a conspiracy tied to a nuclear threat.

This is the second book in the Luke Steele series. The first was “Hometown Vendetta,” in which Steele and Reiner join forces and unravel a deathly conspiracy.

Abramson, a BYU graduate and a Latter-day Saint, is on a book tour. She traveled to Salt Lake City on Friday for a book signing event at Deseret Book in City Creek Center. She also stopped by Idaho Falls and Rexburg in Idaho before heading to Arizona.

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