Gil Miller – författare

Just when he thinks he''s clear of the meth business, Lyle Villines gets busted cold cooking for a friend. After his arrest, he''s approached by a DEA agent who wants him to work as an informant - and take down someone high up in a Mexican cartel. It''s a tall order for a small-time player like Lyle, but one he can''t refuse. If he doesn''t do it, he''ll only be seeing his kids during prison visiting hours.

He goes back into business and is immediately confronted by two local thugs who want a piece of the action - either he cooks for them, or he doesn''t cook at all. Searching for a way around them, he meets Carl and Zeke Higgins, members of a local family distributing meth for the Sinaloa cartel. Before he knows it, he''s so far in he can''t get out.

The only way to go is up - all the way to the top to cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán himself. Along the way, he has to deal with the local thugs and a Kentucky family hell-bent on holding his bosses hostage.

And in the end, what Guzmán asks of him might be too much.

Max Joplin was living his dream. A great job that was the envy of others, in a high-profile law enforcement company, under the sunny skies of Florida. Until he blew the whistle on illegal practices within the organization. Suddenly, he found himself in protective custody with the FBI and blacklisted from employment with agencies across the country.When an old friend helps him secure a new job in a place far removed from the beaches of Miami, he''s immediately saddled with a partner he isn''t sure he can trust and a case unlike anything the world has ever seen before. Adding to the chaos, his new artificial intelligence assistant is becoming annoyingly independent, and there''s Doctor Roxie Mann-an assistant ME who seems to be interested in more than a professional relationship with Max. As the bizarre murders stack up, and new obstacles are thrown in his path, Max wonders if the people at his new job aren''t somehow connected to his old bosses-until his partner becomes one of the victims.New job, new AI, new murders, new romance, and old problems rearing their heads all add up to more complications than he''s sure he can handleAs the stakes rise and the bodies pile up, Max isn''t sure who he can trust or which way to turn-except that everything he''s seeing points back to a company that is supposed to be defunct but appears to be very much in business.And getting away with murder.