Originally Posted by Beyle
Beyle, here: New member, grateful for this oblique opportuity. After publshing nine novels the "old way" all over the world and in several languages without a bad review, well, there was that ex-admiral in Monterey who called me a communist but otherwise..., I found myself in that special hell for the inflexiable and came late to the realization that I had better join the revolution (or else)with the rest of you. That or take up writing greeting cards.
Hence,,HARD MAN FALLING by J. D. Buchanan,, A thriller availlable at the Amazon kindle store. Rather tough, certainly violent and with a few "naughty bits" that I'm counting on making me infamous.
The story takes place largely in a world with which most Amercians are unfamiliar, the exotic society of the emerald barons of the Cordellero Oriental in the high Andes of Colombia. This is true, a few years ago the drug cartels tried to move in on them so the esmeraldos built an army and kicked the hell out of them, thirity-five hundred people died. In Latin America is is known as the "Emerald War." The emerald people may be far more educated and sophisticated but are just as ruthless as the narcotrafficers when their interests are threatened. They tend to live in two centuries, the 16th and our own.
My hero is a tough forty year old investigator, Sean Dunn, for a security firm who would rather play trombone in a salsa band in Miami but is employed (endentured) by a beautiful, reckless, wealthy Palm Beach woman who wants him to go down there and retreive her husband. It appears he's ready to marry the "Emerald Queen., a twenty-eight year old woman who wears a gun where no man will find it and rides every morning with her wild vaqueros, then in the afternoon runs a vast empire. God only knows what she does at night. She is brilliant and ruthless.
Sean is contemptuous of the Palm Beach couple, detests the man he is to rescue and has no idea what he is getting into, a world of clans, plots, assassinations, gun battles, treachery and sexal intrigue. First he finds himself in the service of the Emerald queen, Constanza Linares, a woman who may or may not have killed her own father, and then in love with her himself. A first time for him and devastating
If you've read this far you're a brick. Thanks.
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