Eastern Europe is in chaos as the Soviet-backed system of Communism collapses. But in Czechoslovakia, the population is jubilant. Prague Spring has arrived at last But one colonel of the old order plans his escape. He has access to priceless Bohemian museum pieces. Never mind that they belong to the people of this nation. They are to be stolen, and sold to a wealthy South American drug lord, for enough money to set up the colonel for life. Ah, but Nico DiCapelli is having none of that. His organization, World Designs Ltd., has sent him to an old inn, The Kamen, in the bucolic countryside of Czechoslovakia to shadow the elusive and mysterious Sylvia Duncan, and to intercept the museum pieces. A fine plan, but as it turns out, the countryside is not so bucolic after all. The colonel turns up dead, and suddenly Nico finds himself as the next target.
What could be more relaxing? An unanticipated holiday takes the three San Martín brothers to the remote peninsula La Guajira in Colombia. Under no obligation to either of their employers, the Gendarmería Nacional of Argentina or the London-based World Designs Ltd., the young men think that at long last, they will have some downtime. But think again! Their planned trip of leisure takes several unexpected twists. To their annoyance, they manage to get sucked into a murder investigation. The discovery of the body unearths a conspiracy to smuggle cocaine from Colombia into neighboring Venezuela. Then, with their luck running from bad to worse, they find themselves caught in the crosshairs of a long-running family feud in the northern peninsula. However, it is the entrance of one small Wayuu boy who materializes on the center stage of the action that turns upside down not only their holiday, but also their lives.
Peter Dorman-Smythe, one of the leaders with World Designs Ltd., has been kidnapped by members of an upstart Islamic group called the Taliban, who are holding him captive in Afghanistan. Four of the organization’s most effective operatives are summoned. Their orders: Find Peter and bring him out. Alive. The team is a seasoned one – brothers Salvadore and Raúl San Martín, and Jorge Grazzini, along with Enrique Etchemendigaray. They plunge into the harsh and unforgiving wilderness of rural Afghanistan, surrounded on all sides by perilous terrain, hostile factions of battling warlords and, most treacherous of all, the violent men who inhabit the world of opium trafficking. But the seed of doubt has already been planted. Has Peter decided to set himself up as a Taliban hostage in order to try a bit of blackmail? It’s a dangerous game – dangerous for the organization’s operatives, that is – and one that could have far-reaching consequences. Consequences with a capital C.
When a fellow agent inexplicably vanishes during a standard observation assignment in Morocco, the San Martín brothers are pulled, yet again, into a dark underworld of organized crime, drugs, and global intrigue. But in the seventh installment of Bonnie Ridley Kraft’s stunning suspense-thriller series, the stakes are higher than ever for covert operative Raúl San Martín, as the six-year-old boy he has come to love as a son is inadvertently dragged into a shocking morass of international corruption, underground rebellion, ethnic persecution, and ever-shifting allegiances. Raúl is left with no choice but to step back into a life he thought he had left behind. Slipping effortlessly into his old undercover role of a capriciously violent drug trafficker, Raúl races to disentangle the complicated web that connects the illicit activities of a Spanish drug lord, the fight for survival waged by an indigenous people against an oppressive government, and the disappearance of a missing agent who just might hold the key to the secrets Raúl is desperately seeking to unravel.
Afghanistan is the largest producer of opium in the world. The World Designs Ltd. organization intends to break the back of the illicit business by removing the head man at the Kabul cartel, Faisal Ratebzad. But once in Kabul, the operatives become entangled in an Afghan family's tragedy. Rashid Ahmadabadi has already lost one daughter, and now his second daughter has disappeared. Soledad Garretson is a journalist who had worked in Afghanistan a few years earlier, and she has firsthand knowledge of the torture and murder of Ahmadabadi's daughter. Thus their mission changes, as they attempt to rescue one daughter even as they extract revenge for the murder of the other. Book number four in the World Designs Ltd. series takes brothers Salvadore and Raul San Martin to Afghanistan, and the war-torn city of Kabul. Accompanying them are Enrique Etchemendigaray and Jorge Grazzini, from the Gendarmeria Nacional of Argentina. Bonnie Ridley Kraft was born and raised in the town of Buffalo, Wyoming in the United States. She left there at the age of eighteen, and has rarely looked back. She was imbued with her love of travel, cultures and languages by her two sons, Adam and Jess, and this is reflected in her writing. Bonnie has traveled to many places in the world, both for business and pleasure. Currently, she is living in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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