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"Killer was on top of the officer, biting him on the leg. Julio told his dog, 'Good boy, good boy, get him!'"
Drug smuggling, terrorism, brutality, sex trafficking, violence, and particularly gruesome death are the main ingredients of this modern thriller. The body count is high, the pace is fast, and the plot zigzags from one end of the globe to the other, as the agendas of radical zealots and greedy criminals become catastrophically incompatible.
Ken is a DEA agent involved in a sting operation in the Bronx. Julio is the pusher he’s after. Ken’s sister is also part of the takedown team. When things go wrong and a shootout ensues, Ken’s sister catches a bullet that will eventually kill her. Julio escapes to continue his nefarious dealings with South American drug cartels. Ken vows revenge. Simultaneously, Middle Eastern terrorists devise a fiendish plan to lace the goods the cartels are selling in America with hideous poisons—thereby causing excruciating deaths to occasional, social, and addicted drug users across the country. You will probably not be surprised to learn that Ken is destined to encounter both Julio and Abdul, the fiend behind the scurrilous plot, before the novel ends.
Filter writes with enthusiasm. His fervid paragraphs denouncing the tactics and behavior of the bad guys are as energetic as the multiple gun battles that blast, boom, and fire from one fevered chapter to the next. If you can get past the misspellings, flawed grammar, and repetitiveness that occur early and often, then you might enjoy this rip-roaring ride through the seamy side of international intrigue, crime, and well-deserved punishment.