Operation Cover-Up - Rise of the Black Mamba (Paperback)

From Award Winning Author P D Baldwin When it comes to the person who took everything from you, when does an act of revenge outweigh the consequences? Five years ago, while working undercover in a Jamaican drug posse, Alexis "Alex" Stratton had everything that mattered stripped away from him-and it was all because of Simon Felix, the very man the United States government had hired him to kill. In the process of a hit gone wrong, Alex's cover was blown, his fiancee murdered, and a target placed on his back for the crime. Now he'll stop at nothing until he takes everything from Simon that Simon took from him, including the wife he loves. But the skilled assassin also has an identity he must maintain. On the surface, he is a multimillionaire real-estate mogul, who also moonlights as a restaurateur and nightclub owner. Keeping up appearances means traveling first class, partying with celebrities, and embracing all the benefits of the jet-setting playboy lifestyle-spending time with his pick of beautiful and exotic women on any given night. Reality is much darker than this glossy veneer suggests, however, and nobody can know the truth about the man whose colleagues call him "Black Mamba"-a man who has built a lucrative career on being one of the deadliest assassins the world has ever known. But driven by guilt and motivated by vengeance, his long-building anger has made him reckless, placing him in the crosshairs of corrupt FBI agents, rogue police officers, and dirty lawyers who are determined to keep Simon Felix free and safe. Stratton is slowly realizing that if he hopes to take everything from the one man who took everything from him, his sanity will be tested, his friendships will be destroyed, and his life will likely spiral out of control. But when an unexpected romance with a beautiful stranger has him questioning his heart and his decisions, will the deadly assassin find it in him to leave his anger and pain behind? Or will he be doomed to give up everything in pursuit of revenge? As action-packed as it is thought-provoking, this first book of the Operation Cover-up series takes readers on a journey that is gripping, raw, and darkly realistic. While tackling various social and religious issues, this gritty erotic thriller dares to go where few works of its genre have dared to go before-the darkest reaches of the human psyche, where nothing is as it seems and every decision has real-life consequences. While the book is entirely fictional, readers of the story of Alex Stratton may find themselves stopping to consider the decisions they make in their own lives, and taking a moment to think about what might really be going on behind closed doors. With equal parts action, suspense, drama, mystery, and eroticism, the imaginative plot and uniquely realistic characters of Operation Cover-up make it a page-turner from beginning to end, forging a brand-new literary path for author P D Baldwin."