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Mortalis
March 2007
On Sale: March 6, 2007
Featuring: Jude McManus; Salvaiso
448 pages
ISBN: 0812977335
EAN: 9780812977332
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Thriller Psychological | Thriller Political
El Salvador: Americaโs great Cold War success story and the model for Iraqโs fledgling democracyโif one ignores the grinding poverty, the corruption, the spiraling crime, and a murder rate ranked near the top in the hemisphere. This is where Jude McManus works as an executive protection specialist, currently assigned to an American engineer working for a U.S. consortium. Ten years before, at age seventeen, he saw his father and two Chicago cop colleagues arrested for robbing street dealers. The family fell apart in the scandalโs wake, his disgraced dad died under suspicious circumstances, and Jude fled Chicago to join the army and forge a new life. Now the past returns when one of his fatherโs old pals appears. The man is changedโheโs scarred, regretful, self- awareโand he helps Jude revisit the past with a forgiving eye. Then he asks a favorโnot for himself, but for the third member of his dadโs old crew. Even though itโs ill-considered, Jude agrees, thinking he can oblige the request and walk away, unlike his father. But he underestimates the players and the stakes and he stumbles into a web of Third World corruption and personal betrayal where everything he valuesโand everyone he lovesโ is threatened. And only the greatest of sacrifices will save them.
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