Book One of the Maison de Danse Quartet
Suspense
Date Published: 01-01-2022
Publisher: Épouvantail Books
The hunt is on. Pierce Danser is desperately searching for his grandson, Kazu, a twelve year old who's carving a murderous trail as he tries to escape his past. Labeled by the Mexican federales as Jappy the Assassin, the boy has fought his way to the states, being chased by his double-crossed employer and the law. When Pierce picks up his trail, he starts his desperate journey from a simple life in Michigan to the Midwest, using all of his wits and contacts to rescue the boy before the Mexican hitmen and the authorities get their claws into him.
As the trail leads Pierce to Florida, he is also targeted and attacked. Battered and frightened, he refuses to give up, doing all he can to get to Kazu before the boy is caught and disappeared and worse. Because of his trickery and escape, nothin less than Kazu's head on a spike will do.
Pierce is in the fight of his life.
The clock is ticking.
Can he save the boy from his deadly pursuers?
Chapter One
Jappy
My
life orbited around Wednesdays when the crime-splattered newspapers arrived
from Mexico.
Sickening
graphic photographs under screaming headlines in blood red. The gunshot victims
on the sides of nameless roads. Men, women, and children dismembered by
explosives or machetes. I waded into the five newspapers each week, all from
the west coast of Mexico, the vacation paradise of tourists and high-rise
hotels, swimming pools, swim-up bars, seven meals a day, and free-flowing
alcohol.
Five penniless farmworkers who had
unloaded the wrong truck had their eyes gouged out with a
fork before their tongues were sliced off and two bullets were pumped into
their foreheads. Close-up facial images of the five were included. In color, of
course. There were stories about tourist kidnappings, murders, gunfights, and
drugs streaming in the gutters. Good old
festive, tropical Puerto Mita.
Opening
my dog-eared English-Spanish translation book, I waded in. Like every Wednesday, with Rhonda’s
help, I was looking for clues.
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