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Wicked Interactions
A notorious New Orleans cocaine trafficking covenant, an intrepid Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) office, and a successful family-owned business dynasty unwittingly intersect against a backdrop of a wicked human trafficking enterprise from Mexico into several US cities.
In 2024, Shayan Ali, a child of the sixties civil rights movement and a successful cocaine distributor in New Orleans, unexpectedly discovers that the offspring of postwar Italian immigrant entrepreneurs, the Mancinis, located in Betterton, Maryland, are connected to him through family members. The relationship dramatically upsets the routines of both families and a pending HSI operation.
HSI offices in Baltimore, Maryland, and New Orleans, Louisiana, are relentlessly pursuing Ali and Mexican cartel members for their involvement in, among other things, human trafficking.
The imbroglio threatens to derail HSI's criminal investigation while placing Ali and the Mancinis in danger of reprisals from Mexican cartels.
The Sixth Son
The Sixth Son is the second novel of a trilogy on human trafficking involving US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and their relentless effort to curb Mexican cartel shipments of kidnapped women and children across the US border. Unlike the prequel, The Old Cop, which involved a retired US Agent, Agustín Camelia's intrepid efforts to battle this evil, The Sixth Son concerns the struggles of a highly regarded Maryland family, the Mancinis, who recently made a bizarre discovery about their late patriarch, Geovani Mancini, who migrated to the US from Sicily in 1939 with the assistance of Sicilian mafia members. Unknown dubious New York relations now threaten to tear the family apart. Geovani Mancini's sons and daughter, who now run the family business, agree to withhold these findings from the rest of the family until a private investigator thoroughly investigates.
Meanwhile, unrelated to the familial turmoil, a young grandson and college student, Alex Mancini, has accepted a job as an intern with HSI while finishing his master's degree. Among his duties is interviewing recent victims of human trafficking and preparing them for court testimony. The case involves twenty-seven women rescued by HSI in La Vergne, Tennessee, two months prior. While interacting with HSI Special Agents on this investigation, Alex learns about Camelia's contributions to the case and his mysterious disappearance in Mexico. Gripped with the story, he volunteers to determine his current whereabouts. Alex's probe places him in the crosshairs of the Mexican cartel members, who are poised to retaliate against US intruders.
The Old Cop
The book follows the exploits of an octogenarian, Agustín Lara Camelia, a retired law enforcement executive living as a widowed recluse in the Pennsylvania countryside. An ill-advised response to an “escort” ad, ends tragically, and he finds himself facing a prison term for manslaughter. Because of his unique international background he is recruited as an unofficial infiltrator within Mexico by Agents of the US Department of Homeland Security Investigations who are investigating a sex trade organization with connection with a Mexican cartel controlling human trafficking between northern Mexico and the US.
The old man finds himself conflicted while trying to atone for his crime and also follow the strict rules of HSI. Camelia relies on his experiences as a rookie police officer on the streets of Salinas, California. It was there that he last felt self-assured and learned that humanitarianism is the cornerstone of law enforcement, the part that gives purpose throughout a policeman’s life.
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