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“This was a fun summer beach read with lots of plot twists and action-packed, thriller moments. The author knows Rio well and you get a great sense of its beauty, as well as its challenges, through his words. I look forward to T.J.’s next adventure!”
The Warrior Saint (T. J. Leukemeyer Thrillers Book 1)
– Learn MoreAhead of the Summer Olympics in Brazil, a modern-day James Bond infiltrates a world of corruption and treachery, where he can’t trust anybody—even himself.
DEA Special Agent T. J. Leukemeyer is down on his luck after a botched mission calls T. J.’s instincts—his greatest asset—into question. Double-crossed by another agent, facing a failing relationship with his longtime life partner and a career that’s headed for a desk job, the native Texan accepts a leave of absence from the agency to handle an off-the-record international job: The Brazilians are looking to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s dangerous shanties ahead of the Olympics and need an outsider to gain access to the drug cartels that answer to corrupt, untouchable business leaders and politicians.
Working undercover with Rio’s Military Police, T. J. infiltrates the dark underbelly of the city’s privileged elite—from a real-estate mogul and his telenovela-star wife to an interior designer with a gift for fortunetelling. As the clock ticks down to the arrival of a major drug shipment, T. J. must walk a tightrope of lies connecting a dead policeman, a rent boy, and a land deal that will change the face of Rio. In a foreign world filled with treachery and shifting loyalties, he can’t trust anybody—even himself.