Against the Law - David Gordon

Written by David Gordon
Read by Joe Barrett
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Joe the Bouncer Series, Book 3
Publisher: HighBridge
Release date: May 25, 2021
Duration: 09:20:19

A special forces agent-turned-strip club bouncer with a side hustle as a hitman for the New York mob seeks out a deadly drug lord in the poppy fields of Afghanistan.

Joe is a retired Special Forces operative with a bad case of PTSD and some substance abuse issues, trying to rebuild a simple life as a strip club bouncer living with his grandmother in Queens. But this simple life is constantly complicated by the fact that, at the invitation of his childhood friend, now a Mafia boss, Joe also moonlights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in town.

In his newest assignment, Joe is sent to take out a shadowy figure named Zahir, who made the New York crime families’ hit list by hijacking heroin shipments bound for US dealers and funneling the money to terror cells. Which means that Gotham’s underbelly has brought Joe back to the one place in the world he doesn’t want to revisit: the poppy fields of Afghanistan, a country that left permanent scars on his body as well as his psyche.

Publishers Weekly—“… In Helmand Province, Brody awaits a heroin deal to be completed so that he can gun down the person he expects will steal the drugs, Zahir the Shadow, who has been hijacking narcotics and using them to fund terror attacks. Zahir’s identity proves a surprise, but that reveal is merely the prologue to a race to avert a mass casualty event in Manhattan, which again partners Brody with attractive FBI agent Donna Zamora, who’s emotionally entangled with him. Some readers may not care for Brody’s insouciant attitude. “Now assassinating drug lords with terrorist ties was more like a hobby, something he did part-time when he wasn’t busy with his regular gig, as a bouncer at a strip club in Queens.” This one’s for those who don’t require realism in their thrillers.”