Blond Cargo
John Lansing
Gallery
Books/Karen Hunter Publishing eBook, Oct 20 2014, $5.99
ISBN: 9781476795515
Retired NYPD narcotics chief, Jack Bertolino, left the city for
Los Angeles where he gardened, drank expensive wine and drove a Mustang. However, when Jack worked a homicide of an
informant he knew back home, his efforts led to a Columbia Cartel retaliating against
his Stanford University baseball playing son Chris. Mafia chieftain Vincent
Cardona provided Jack with key info and protection for his hospitalized (and
still recovering) offspring.
Expecting Vincent to call in the debt in the future, Jack is
surprised how soon the mobster does.
Fearing his daughter, if not dead, may be in trouble from a killer who
murdered two look-alikes, Vincent explains Angelica recently vanished apparently
from the Club Martinique. He wants the
former cop turned P.I. with a bad back to find his missing daughter. Jack follows clues that lead him to an
affluent Iraqi with deep connections in Southern California selling females at
auction to wealthy patrons.
The
second Bertolino investigation (see The Devil's Necktie) is an adrenaline
pumping over the top of the Hollywood sign thriller that will remind readers of
Liam Neeson’s Taken except for brief interludes when the hero tries to get still
hurting Chris to forgive him and scenes with his GF. Incredibly action-packed but with a
stereotypical support cast (especially the villain); readers will root for Jack
to pay off his debt his way.
Harriet
Klausner
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