Novel Offerings
Until Philosophers Become Kings
"The society we have described can never grow into reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in the world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands...For it is not easy to see that there is no other road to happiness, either for society, or the individual".
—Plato
They call him El Condor de Muerte—the Condor of Death—but few know the true identity of Mexico’s most powerful cartel leader nor the extent of his power and influence. Fewer still are privy to his plans for the future of Mexico, and the destructive drug trade.
Undercover DEA agent Ray Cruz has spent months in a maximum-security prison, slowly earning the trust of a drug kingpin known as Carlo. When the DEA arranges an “escape” for Ray and Carlo, the young agent discovers that Carlo holds a high rank in the Condor’s well-organized and powerful cartel—an organization unknown to both Mexican and US authorities.
To hide so powerful an organization from the authorities in both nations requires exceptional influence in Mexican politics, and Ray quickly realizes the Condor’s talons dig deep into the highest echelons of power. At the same time, he discovers the Condor’s vision for the future of the cartels and Mexico—a vision the DEA agent finds unsettlingly appealing.
A tale of evil arising from the best of intentions, Until Philosophers Become Kings explores the gray and blurred lines of morality. No one knows what they’re capable of until their hand is forced.
The Kingdom Shall Fall
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.—Friedrich Nietzsche
The world of Mexican drug cartels is deep, dark, and terrifying. At least that’s what DEA agent Ray Cruz believed when he began his undercover assignment within one particularly powerful cartel.
At first, Ray’s suspicions are confirmed by the cartel’s scheming and brutality. As he delves deeper, however, he discovers profound corruption at the highest levels of the Mexican government, and a cartel leader unbelievably trying to end it. Suddenly the cartel’s dealings don’t seem so evil. Ray finds himself morally stuck between the corruption of those who make the laws and the unexpected honor of those who break them.
The second book in the Until Philosophers Become Kings series, The Kingdom Shall Fall dives deeper into the abyss of Mexican drug trafficking. Will Ray find light past the darkness, or will he be lost forever within?
The Last Good Samaritan
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.—Friedrich Nietzsche
An unexpected windfall of found, unreportable cash, can it truly bring happiness? Jack Williams, a good and decent man down on his luck is about to find out. An Ex-Marine sniper, CID investigator turned Denver Police detective, wrongfully dismissed from the force, is driving over a deserted mountain pass late one night when he witnesses a speeding van missing a hairpin curve and launching out into the darkness beyond. Ever the good Samaritan, Jack stops and clambers down the steep rocky forested slopes of the pass to try and find the wreck and render help.
What he finds changes his life forever. The two occupants are dead, and a check of the wrecked van reveals they were transporting neatly plastic wrapped bundles of illicit cash, one hundred and twenty million dollars in all. From maps and instructions Jack finds in the wrecked van, the now obvious cartel soldiers were delivering the cash to a cartel leader in Matamoros Mexico.
His life already badly altered by his wrongful dismissal from the police force, and the subsequent divorce by an unloving wife, Jack realizes that he is the only man on earth that knows exactly where this huge sum of unreportable cash is. Can he just keep it? Can he launder it somehow just as the cartels do? Can the cash help him get his two young daughters back?
Relocating to the Bahamas with the cash, Jack sets out to execute the laundering scheme a good friend and lawyer has set up for him. Little does Jack know that the cartel leader he has stolen from has intelligence resources Jack could never imagine, and is getting closer each day to discovering who Jack is and where he and his estranged family are.