The Shadow Cartel by Layton Green

The Shadow Cartel by Layton Green

The fourth book in the bestselling, critically-acclaimed, optioned-for-film Mystery & Thriller series.

The sins of the past always return...

The General.

A name whispered in hushed tones among the criminal underworld, from Miami to Buenos Aires. A name even the drug cartels fear.

Yet the General is a man without a face. There are no fingerprints on file, no known base of operations, not even a biographical sketch. He operates in the shadows, but somehow controls a vast criminal empire. And he has never made a direct incursion onto U.S. soil-until now.

In Miami, disgraced DEA agent Fred Hernandez is called to investigate a bizarre crime scene, where the bodies of four drug dealers are sprawled around an iron cauldron. Even stranger is the mysterious 'blue lady' that a drug-addled witness claims killed the men. Lana Valenciano, an ambitious CIA operative, informs Agent Hernandez that the murders might be connected to a legendary South American criminal known as the General. Lana claims the General has become a threat to national security-but has no idea how to find him.

The government's best hope? Private investigators Dominic Grey and Viktor Radek, who might be the only people alive with the skills to unravel the General's tangled web.

Thrown together on a covert manhunt, Grey and the two agents delve into the darkest reaches of international drug trafficking, only to unearth a sinister chapter in the history of the CIA that has spilled into the present-and put them in the crosshairs of an underworld puppeteer with a frightening reach.

Layton is the author of the Dominic Grey trilogy, as well as other works of fiction, and is a bestselling mystery/suspense/thriller author. His books have been optioned for cinema, nominated for various accolades (including a finalist for the prestigious International Thriller Writers award), and have topped genre lists in the US, UK, and Germany. His most recent novel, The Shadow Cartel, debuted at #2 on Amazon UK. In addition to writing, Layton went to law school in New Orleans and worked as an attorney for almost a decade. He's also worked as a UN intern, an ESL instructor in Central America, a bartender in London, a street vendor selling cheap blades in Brixton, a door-to-door phone book deliverer in Florida, and the list goes on and on.

Layton resides in North Carolina with his wife and children. You may find him on Facebook, Goodreads, Library Thing, and his website (www.laytongreen.com), among other places.