The CIA has plenty of ways to eliminate a threat. Sometimes the most effective weapon is a good publicist.
Luke is a CIA operative working for the Vanguardists, a small, secretive unit operating across Europe. Their job is to intervene quietly, deal with problems before they become crises, and protect American interests without provoking an international incident.
Gus is a different kind of operator. A former fixer who survived years working for three rival Mexican drug cartels, he has traded the criminal underworld for a new specialty: manufacturing success. He knows how to make people famous, turn obscure books into bestsellers, and create public enthusiasm where none existed before.
When Antoni, a man with dangerous connections, is killed in an apparent hit-and-run, he leaves behind a damning account of Serbian billionaire Radenko Graovac. With a past rooted in the wars of the former Yugoslavia, Graovac has reinvented himself as a respected businessman. He has money, political influence, and a ruthless instinct for self-preservation.
Luke sees an opportunity. If Graovac can't be brought down by conventional means, perhaps he can be discredited in the court of public opinion. With Gus orchestrating a campaign of manufactured stories and publicity, the Vanguardists set out to make the billionaire's carefully cultivated public image work against him.
But Graovac is accustomed to dealing with enemies permanently. As the campaign gains momentum, murder, intimidation, and retaliation become part of the game. And Luke's relationship with M, an American photographer who knows nothing about his real occupation, puts someone he cares about directly in the path of danger.
In a world where information can be manipulated, reputations manufactured, and truth buried, the most dangerous weapon may be the story everyone believes.
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Suzan is an ambitious Seattle food influencer who escapes a brutal past by reinventing herself through cooking, travel, and social media success, only to discover that rising visibility brings danger as well as opportunity. When her growing brand as Sue Chef pulls her into the seductive world of Spanish cuisine, luxury travel, and curated foodie tours, Sue Chef finds herself surrounded by stalkers, volatile lovers, missing women, and a wealthy man willing to use violence to protect his status. With its vivid food writing, glamorous international settings and high-stakes suspense.
DEA agent Juan Rodríguez and ATF agent Cliff Owens are drawn into a storm of kidnappings, cartel warfare, and shifting loyalties, relying on intelligence from unlikely sources, including Vicente Morales, a trusted Sinaloa insider.
At the center of the chaos stands Diego Valverde, a Spaniard determined to transform cartel wealth into schools, infrastructure, and opportunity. His vision offers hope in a land scarred by violence—but also paints a target on his back.
As Colonel Ignacio García and his elite soldiers wage a relentless war against the cartels, alliances fracture, corruption spreads, and survival becomes uncertain.
A fast-moving, violent, darkly funny border thriller where every alliance has a price—and every line in the sand is meant to be crossed.
After a haunting triple murder, Owens and her partner vow to step in when victims make twenty-seven unanswered calls for help, starting with a serial abuser linked to a missing woman. As Owens digs deeper, she uncovers McMillan’s ongoing sabotage and evidence tying him to the disappearances of multiple women. With the help of her partner, a crusading lawyer, and McMillan’s abused mistress seeking revenge, Owens devises a bold plan to take down the untouchable billionaire once and for all.
From a young man who uproots his life to visit his brother in a federal prison, to a gambler betting everything on impossible odds, to a weary guard discovering he’s no freer than the men he oversees, Scheck reveals the human pulse beneath violence and retribution, the loyalty, fear, and fragile hope that survive in even the most hostile surroundings.
Contracted for a devastating act of retribution against Walter Greene, a Hollywood mogul with a dark legacy of sexual abuse, Tag penetrates Greene’s guarded world to exact the revenge his client sought, winning a battle but starting a war. Far from learning his lesson, Greene enlists his own fixer. Morgan is competent, detached, and even more ruthless. But instead of two champions from mythology facing off, like David and Goliath, or Achilles and Hector, Tag and Morgan don’t see themselves as enemies but friendly competitors in an illicit market that’s booming.
What follows is a shadowy war of revenge and spiraling violence, well outside the boundaries of the law and society.
Two exceptionally talented DEA agents, one a cynical U.S. Army war veteran, the other an ambitious young woman, lead the American law enforcement interdiction effort with the aid of an incorruptible colonel in the Mexican Special Forces with a hand-picked team of elite soldiers. Another major player siding with the authorities is the head of security for Sinaloa who proves to be a ruthless warrior and invaluable in this war with the Zeta Cartel that becomes a deadly cat and mouse game of ambushes, intimidation, renditions, and assassination.
I have a short story called "Visiting Day" in this collection. I'm very proud of the story that I wrote in two days while I was working on my first crime novel.
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