The Survivors' Affair
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He had barely adjusted to the dank, dark and smoky atmosphere when a figure from the shadows slid behind him, and the tip of a switchblade pierced his jacket and pricked his back. More than fear prompted him to resist an aggressive reaction. If the guy had wanted him dead, he'd already be dead. Then the grinning giant nodded to Tomaso who wrapped the excess rope around a post and tied it off. With the rope secured, Elefante dropped the struggling Munoz and stepped back to watch him die. At each spasm, each jerk, the smiles on the swarthy faces of Munoz's executioners broadened. And when the spasms stopped, so did their smiles. Cesar now knew that he was being tested. He searched for the resolve to pass the test because he knew that a knife would cross his throat if he failed. And he knew that the sour smell rising from the drain beneath the chair was the smell of spoiled blood.
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The place, Mexico City. Three DEA agents and the embassy security head come together to avenge the slaughter of close friends by a drug cartel. Pursuing a rumor that the cartel has a confederate in the American embassy, the Survivors make uncovering that person their primary objective. Aided by a maverick DEA director who doesn’t mind keeping secrets from the State Department, the four engage the cartel and discover not one, but two embassy connections as well as high level confederates in the Mexican government. They also discover an unsuspected alliance between the cartel and American mobsters in the operation of a complex structure, which includes shipping and trucking lines and a network of retail outlets in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the U.S.
About the Author
An Ohio native, the author wrote his first novel at the age of twenty-three. Forty-plus years later, the oft rejected manuscript now resides peacefully in the tattered box in which it was submitted. He says it was hopelessly idealistic, verbose and, perhaps, too racy for its time. After thirty-three years in public education as a teacher, principal, and university administrator, he relocated to Tampa, Florida, and worked as manager of corporate communications for a natural gas distribution company. Retiring for the second time, he turned to writing as a hobby. It was an avocation, which soon became a vocation, a third career. Since that third retirement, he has written and rewritten four novels. The Survivors' Affair is the latest of the four. So exciting, he confides, and editor got so involved in the story that he forgot to edit.