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Minotaur Books
September 2014
On Sale: September 9, 2014
Featuring: Ajax Montoya
320 pages ISBN: 1250048028 EAN: 9781250048028 Kindle: B00IWUXWY6 Hardcover / e-Book
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In Joe Gannon's debut novel, Night of the Jaguar, a former
Sandinista guerrilla comandante turned cop investigates a
series of murders that appear to be political executions. Sandinista Police Captain Ajax Montoya is six days sober
and
losing his mind. How else to explain his nights waking in
bed, his hand wrapped around that bloody-minded stiletto
from the old days, or the presence outside his window, a
face with no eyes watching him? How far the heroic have fallen. Ajax was once the gallant
comandante guerrillero. A hero of the Nicaraguan
revolutionaries in their long uprising against the Ogre
and
his hated National Guard. Back then he’d been the guy who
got the bloody missions -- as a lowly grunt with that
blade,
or the commander of an entire front. Back then he knew
what
was what and who to trust. But as the clarity of war gave
way to the hazy reality of peace, Ajax fared less well.
And
after he took the fall for an assassination he had no part
of, he tumbled into a bottle, and maybe out of his mind. Now he's a homicide investigator in Managua solving
murders
and sweating through the nightmares from his guerilla
days.
When he's called to investigate a robbery turned gruesome
murder, Ajax recognizes the marks of a surprising enemy -
the CIA mercenary army known as The Contra. This isn't
just
a random murder; this is an execution, a call to war. Or
is
it? And why does no one want to know but Ajax? As the
bodies pile up and a red-headed gringa who should be his
enemy enchants his thoughts, Ajax questions whether he can
stay sober, sane, and alive long enough to figure it all
out.
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