By Ted Bell
“A border ain’t not anything yet a legislations drawn within the sand.” So says a small-town Texas sheriff in Ted Bell’s such a lot gripping espionage mystery so far. issues alongside America’s southern border are quickly achieving the boiling aspect. American ladies are being snatched from their houses, ranches are burning, and the variety of lethal confrontations alongside the Mexican boarder grows day-by-day. At evening, armed Mexican troops pass the border at will in help of narcotics smugglers and unlawful immigrants. by means of day, americans take in palms and plan reprisals. An all-out border struggle isn't any longer unimaginable. It’s taking place! On task for the British mystery carrier, a guy leads a mysterious day trip into the guts of darkness. crusing up the furthest reaches of the Amazon River, he's captured by way of a brutal tribe of indigenous cannibals. compelled into slave hard work, he witnesses the incredible. Golden domes and minarets upward push underneath the rainforest cover. tremendous terror armies are being recruited and expert within the jungle. Their objective: a vicious jihad that may unite one continent…and smash one other. They own guns simply dreamed of by means of the Western allies. by some means he needs to break out his captors and stay to inform his story. With tensions on its southern border threatening to ignite into conflict, the United States needs to glance to the only guy who could possibly confront the demons within the jungle…and spoil them. Alex Hawke, by using great Scotland backyard Inspector Ambrose Congreve, and an unstoppable strength of nature named Stokely Jones, starts off a river trip fraught with peril. He needs to confront the entire terrors that guy and nature can hurl at him. From black magic, poison-tipped arrows, and blowguns to an amazing arsenal of the main complicated army undefined, Hawke needs to conquer insurmountable odds on his quest for victory. this is an writer who will get you within the palm of his hand after which clenches his fist. And here's a saga loaded to the gunwales with motion, glamour, and spellbinding suspense. Alex Hawke once more takes listeners correct to that skinny border among worry and overwhelming terror. It’s in basic terms a line drawn within the sand. move it at your peril. pass it if you happen to dare.
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It was he who had arranged the ambush of the expedition, killed his companions, and captured him. He knew the monster’s true identity. His name was Muhammad Top. Top, who made sure there were many days when he wished he’d been lucky and gone down with his friends. That night, it was whispered in the pits that a boy had been shot trying to escape. He asked the name, but he already knew it. The one friend he’d made. Machado. Many days he felt so alone he dropped to his knees on the jungle floor and prayed to God to let him die.
When it was empty, he slammed in another mag and repeated firing off the port side. He threw life rings, cushions, whatever he could grab. It was useless. He saw his colleagues in the water, many already dead or dying in a rain of lead. The ship was engulfed in flames and listing violently to port. Staying aboard another second was suicide. He dove off the sharply angled stern and swam hard downriver, until his lungs, too, were afire. He surfaced and heard that the firing had stopped. Many riddled bodies were floating downstream toward him.
I like. ” Stoke, trying unsuccessfully to be cool about it, nonchalant as his friend and employer Alex Hawke might say, walked over to the car. Johnny followed close behind, trying to stay in his shadow. ” Johnny said. “Well, we gotta talk about that, don’t we? ” “No. ” Stoke ran his hand over the almost liquid finish of the bulging hood. “Were you a Marine? ” “Navy. SEAL. ” Johnny was busy, opening the driver’s door and popping the hood. “Cool. Semper fi, right? I got a lot of respect for you guys.