December 2, 2022
Born in Mexico City and raised in Southern California, Jamie Morales is a West Point graduate and Green Beret hero whose parents and wife are executed over three decades by Marco Delgado, Mexico’s notorious drug lord. Delgado declares his vengeance against the Morales family is partially motivated by a mysterious religious antiquity Jamie’s mother stole from him years earlier —the Emerald Cross. After DEA missions to capture Delgado fail, Jamie sharpens rusty battle skills to pursue the psychotic drug boss himself. A loyal ex-Army comrade and Black Hawk pilot, Sylvia Sokolov, stubbornly inserts herself into his mission.
Their plan requires infiltrating the drug kingpin’s compound, a pretend Serengeti teeming with African beasts protecting his hacienda. When the cartel leader and ex-soldier finally come face-to-face, Delgado shares information that instantly changes everything Jamie knows about his past and future: His father, declared dead thirty years earlier, is alive, imprisoned within a bunker in California. After absconding with a Mexican Marines helicopter, the Americans flee northward toward the US border with the kidnapped drug lord and others as cargo. Militaries, drug agencies, and narcos are in pursuit, and it’s unclear who is an ally or enemy…
The Emerald Cross, a thriller pitting an ex-Green Beret hero and his female Army comrade against a Mexican drug lord and cartel, debuts April 2023.
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