Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Release Date: March 30, 2021
Publisher: MIRA
Source: Publisher
Genre: Mystery / Thrillers / Suspense
New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan's newest thriller again features an edgy young female LAPD detective and an ambitious special agent, both part of a mobile FBI unit that is brought in to investigate the unsolved murder of a college activist and its alleged ties to high stakes crime in the desert Southwest.
The unsolved murder of a young activist leads to the discovery of much darker crimes in New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan’s latest compelling thriller to feature the young, edgy detective Kara Quinn and the loner FBI agent Matt Costa. This time they work to uncover possible ties to a high-stakes cartel in the Southwest desert.
Something mysterious is killing the wildlife in the mountains just south of Tucson. When a college intern turned activist sets out to collect her own evidence, she, too, ends up dead. Local law enforcement is slow to get involved. That’s when the mobile FBI unit goes undercover to infiltrate the town and its copper refinery in search of possible leads.
Quinn and Costa find themselves scouring the desolate landscape, which keeps revealing clues to something much darker—greed, child trafficking and more death. As the body count adds up, it’s clear they have stumbled onto much more than they bargained for. Now they must figure out who is at the heart of this mayhem and stop them before more innocent lives are lost.
Tell No Lies is the second installment in author Allison Brennan's Quinn & Costa Thriller series. The story takes place in and around a town called Patagonia, Arizona. Two months ago, something mysterious was killing the wildlife in the desert hills just
south of Tucson, Arizona. Emma Perez, a college-intern-turned
activist, and her boyfriend Billy Nixon, set out to collect evidence to give to her boss Frank Block of AREA (Arizona Resources Environment Agency). She ended up dead. Billy demanded answers to why she was murdered. Enter the FBI.
Matt Costa and his shiny new FBI Mobile Response Team arrives on the scene. The core of their investigation is to find out why Emma was murdered and by whom. This investigation also dives into possible illegal toxic dumping by a copper refinery planet. What they learn is even more shocking. Former LAPD Detective Kara Quinn, who had her career cut short after her cover was blown, gets the job of going undercover at a local bar to see what information she can gather. Kara is an interesting character in that she was a con artist trained by her family before becoming a cop. She spent 12 years as an undercover cop until someone blew her cover.
Michael Harris, a former Navy SEAL, takes a job at the Southwest Copper Refinery hoping to get close enough to expose whether or not the company is illegally dumping toxins into the water and the desert. Michael struggles with telling lies to good people
as he investigates a different angle of the investigation. Michael isn't cut out for being undercover, and he gives all the respect in the world to Kara for doing it for so long before someone destroyed her career. For Kara, reading people is in the blood. Another key player in this story is Joe Molina who is not only an informant trying to help his family, but he falls for Kara. One could say that there are plenty of villains waiting to be uncovered.
While Costa's team, including Ryder Kim and Zack Heller, are scouring the desolate landscape looking for answers to Emma's murder, the clues lead to something much darker. Murder, deception, lies, and human trafficking. As
the body count continues to rise, it's clear they have stumbled onto
more than they bargained for. Now they must figure out who is at the
heart of this mayhem and stop them before more innocent lives are lost. This story also features two young kids who are victims in the Drug Cartel's Human trafficking operations into the US. I do hope that you pay attention to these remarkable children who lost everything.
This
story had more fact than fiction. Human trafficking is a huge problem
for this country. Two of the tertiary characters are basically children who were sold by their mother after their father was murdered by drug cartels in their hometown. The Cartels are very good at exploiting families for money. If you don't pay them their fee, they destroy innocent lives. The two are forced to hide from bad men who sell young children to buyers in the US and elsewhere. In this case, the cartel's use of stupid American college kids to run guns and weapons across the border. Bianca and Angel's story is a story about how American politicians are turning a blind eye to what's happening at the border.
This is a timely novel for the reasons that thousands of unaccompanied minors are flooding the border and nobody seems to have answers except to bloviate and blame others. Politicians have ignored cartel's for far too long. They have ignored coyote's who are paid thousands of dollars to bring people across the border. Politicians love to bluster and promise solutions only to turn
around and do nothing. Mexico and the US need to be more aggressive
towards cartel's who bring unaccompanied children across the border who
then end up in collection facilities. American's need to wake up and do
something except point fingers at each other. It doesn't help when all you do is scream at each other instead of offering positive solutions.
i read a lot of books about trafficking. living in florida, i think of it a lot. i am older, so not on their list, but all the tourists need to be very aware of it. i don't hear a lot about it in the news, but it is bigger than many think
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