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The Amado Cartel takes over the streets of New York bringing the old ways with them from Mexico. They kidnap police officers who interfere in their drug dealing operations and keep them in a secret underground prison in New York.
For every drug lord taken off the street, a police officer disappears to the Amando Cartel prison, never to be seen again. The New York Police Department puts every available man on the street to hunt down the Amando Cartel and take the streets of New York again.
Jeremy a small town boy from Cedar Rapids, always lived a sheltered life from a controlling mother Mrs. Gordiano who thinks everyone is out to harm her little boy. She is so controlling Jeremy considers her, his enemy number one. He cannot wait to be of age and free of Mrs. Gordiano at long last.
Well, finally he turns eighteen, travels to New York to meet his elder sister Joline whom he has not seen for several years. Friends in New York organize a surprise welcome for Jeremy unbeknownst to Joline. They throw a bunch of fire crackers at the pair while they walk home to Joline’s Manhattan apartment.
Jeremy panics and takes to his heels thinking Joline is dead— shot by a gunman trying to assassinate the entire Gordiano family. Joline’s friends try to catch up with him but he runs even faster, fearing that the gunman is pursuing him. OH- LA-LA, he is lost in New York.
That’s when as if by fate, he follows a beautiful woman called Sobopata whose beauty intoxicates him. Jeremy’s inability to resist Sobopata’s advances and Sobopata’s clever wit about the weakness of men helps her to kidnap Jeremy.
Jeremy falls into the hands of the Amando Cartel and headlong into the ongoing battle between the Cartel and the New York Police Department.
Though the beauty of Sobopata continues to unnerve Jeremy, she only thinks of him as a poodle she cleverly kidnapped from the street to use in whatever way pleases her. She uses street guile that naïve Jeremy could not understand or withstand.
Jeremy’s relationship with Sobopata lands him into constant trouble with Sobopata’s eight-foot tall Cartel boyfriend, who becomes very jealous of Jeremy. He brands him a police informant and convinces his boss to keep him in the Cartel prison. Life is hell for Jeremy as he suffers every kind of abuse from Sobopata’s boyfriend whom he calls Mr. Harley Davidson. Not his real name of course.
While Jeremy is going through his worst nightmare in the Amando Cartel prison, the New York Police Department thinks Jeremy is a member of the Amando Cartel because they caught him on tape the day he got missing running away with Sobopata, whom they identify as a close confidante of the Amando Cartel and a person of interest.
Mrs Gordiano could not have any of that nonsense. Her son could never become a drug dealer. But she could not locate her daughter Joline to help her corroborate her story to the New York Police. Joline is so scared of Mrs Gordiano when Jeremy goes missing; she thinks Mrs. Gordiano would kill her in an instant if she ever stands in front of the bad tempered woman to tell her. After all she saw her enraged mother throw a knife at her late dad once almost pinning him to the kitchen shelf. Later on, she would also stumble on her as she executed him with pain killers while he lay on his death bed invalid. Mrs Gordiano could be expected to do no less to Joline, if she tells her that her son is missing.
Frightened to face her mother, Joline decides instead to hire a private detective to help her locate the missing boy.
Left alone with no one to support her story, the worst fears of Mrs. Gordiano have come true. She has lost both of her children mysteriously and could not get the cooperation of the police who think they are wanted criminals.
So Mrs. Gordiano, the take charge Mom decides to become a private detective herself. She quits her job in Cedar Rapids, moves into an apartment in Harlem and starts her own Mothers’ Detective Agency to get to the bottom of this matter.
The independent daughter and mother team work separately but tirelessly around the clock looking for the young man. They almost run into each other several times but each time the younger woman sees the older woman first, shrieks in fright and takes cover before the older woman could recognize her.
They work with all kinds of people on the fringes of society: drug dealers, prostitutes, conmen, geeks but make no headway at first, because the people who know anything about the Amando Cartel are killed just before they can get to them. Hope is slipping fast for Mrs. Gordiano to find her children.
Then the break comes from an unlikely source. By the end of book one, they follow a crucial lead from a church help turned detective Christian Kolowsky. This lead takes them right to the top of the Amando Cartel No. 1 man Gonzales Amando, who thinks he is afflicted by a demon and seeks the help of a New York Catholic Priest, Father John Elliot, to exorcise it.
After listening to Amando’s confession the priest is very disturbed by what he knows about him but he could never go public with it. He is prohibited by Canon Law from saying private things he hears in the confessional to any other living person. Fortunately for him, Amando gives consent to discuss his case with a more senior priest experienced in exorcism.
So one Sunday before mass, Father Elliot could take it no more. He discusses the issues troubling his mind with the senior priest before mass. Whilst this is happening, the church help turned underground detective eavesdrops on the conversation in the sacristy while he helps the priests prepare for mass. He goes on to provide a useful break in the case to the Mothers’ Detective Agency.
Amando Gonzales wants the priest to pray for him at 6:00pm each day, if the priest fails he would kill him— so goes the threat. The NYPD is monitoring his cell phone— he fears, they would have to meet on Twinty, the online site where avatars meet in built cities that look like their real world equivalents.
The Mothers’ Detective Agency hires the smartest geek in New York to assist them in remotely accessing Father Elliot’s computer.
There are many twists and turns in the story but the next time Gonzales Amando is forced by the demon to go to confession, the cops are waiting. But it is not they that finally take Amando during the fighting. It is Mrs. Gordiano, who would never let the man escape like other witnesses have.
The Police have only Amando Gonzalez in their custody but he is non-prosecutable. The Doctor says he suffers from Paranoid Schizophrenia, so he is sent to a maximum security mental health facility.
Though he is wanted by the NYPD as much as the Gordianos, there is nothing they could do until his sanity returns. There is nowhere else to turn since the Cartel members have vanished into thin air. All Mrs. Gordiano can do in the meantime, is pray very hard for the preservation and speedy recovery of her worst enemy.
This Novel is available as an ebook on Nook and Kindle after December 10
For every drug lord taken off the street, a police officer disappears to the Amando Cartel prison, never to be seen again. The New York Police Department puts every available man on the street to hunt down the Amando Cartel and take the streets of New York again.
Jeremy a small town boy from Cedar Rapids, always lived a sheltered life from a controlling mother Mrs. Gordiano who thinks everyone is out to harm her little boy. She is so controlling Jeremy considers her, his enemy number one. He cannot wait to be of age and free of Mrs. Gordiano at long last.
Well, finally he turns eighteen, travels to New York to meet his elder sister Joline whom he has not seen for several years. Friends in New York organize a surprise welcome for Jeremy unbeknownst to Joline. They throw a bunch of fire crackers at the pair while they walk home to Joline’s Manhattan apartment.
Jeremy panics and takes to his heels thinking Joline is dead— shot by a gunman trying to assassinate the entire Gordiano family. Joline’s friends try to catch up with him but he runs even faster, fearing that the gunman is pursuing him. OH- LA-LA, he is lost in New York.
That’s when as if by fate, he follows a beautiful woman called Sobopata whose beauty intoxicates him. Jeremy’s inability to resist Sobopata’s advances and Sobopata’s clever wit about the weakness of men helps her to kidnap Jeremy.
Jeremy falls into the hands of the Amando Cartel and headlong into the ongoing battle between the Cartel and the New York Police Department.
Though the beauty of Sobopata continues to unnerve Jeremy, she only thinks of him as a poodle she cleverly kidnapped from the street to use in whatever way pleases her. She uses street guile that naïve Jeremy could not understand or withstand.
Jeremy’s relationship with Sobopata lands him into constant trouble with Sobopata’s eight-foot tall Cartel boyfriend, who becomes very jealous of Jeremy. He brands him a police informant and convinces his boss to keep him in the Cartel prison. Life is hell for Jeremy as he suffers every kind of abuse from Sobopata’s boyfriend whom he calls Mr. Harley Davidson. Not his real name of course.
While Jeremy is going through his worst nightmare in the Amando Cartel prison, the New York Police Department thinks Jeremy is a member of the Amando Cartel because they caught him on tape the day he got missing running away with Sobopata, whom they identify as a close confidante of the Amando Cartel and a person of interest.
Mrs Gordiano could not have any of that nonsense. Her son could never become a drug dealer. But she could not locate her daughter Joline to help her corroborate her story to the New York Police. Joline is so scared of Mrs Gordiano when Jeremy goes missing; she thinks Mrs. Gordiano would kill her in an instant if she ever stands in front of the bad tempered woman to tell her. After all she saw her enraged mother throw a knife at her late dad once almost pinning him to the kitchen shelf. Later on, she would also stumble on her as she executed him with pain killers while he lay on his death bed invalid. Mrs Gordiano could be expected to do no less to Joline, if she tells her that her son is missing.
Frightened to face her mother, Joline decides instead to hire a private detective to help her locate the missing boy.
Left alone with no one to support her story, the worst fears of Mrs. Gordiano have come true. She has lost both of her children mysteriously and could not get the cooperation of the police who think they are wanted criminals.
So Mrs. Gordiano, the take charge Mom decides to become a private detective herself. She quits her job in Cedar Rapids, moves into an apartment in Harlem and starts her own Mothers’ Detective Agency to get to the bottom of this matter.
The independent daughter and mother team work separately but tirelessly around the clock looking for the young man. They almost run into each other several times but each time the younger woman sees the older woman first, shrieks in fright and takes cover before the older woman could recognize her.
They work with all kinds of people on the fringes of society: drug dealers, prostitutes, conmen, geeks but make no headway at first, because the people who know anything about the Amando Cartel are killed just before they can get to them. Hope is slipping fast for Mrs. Gordiano to find her children.
Then the break comes from an unlikely source. By the end of book one, they follow a crucial lead from a church help turned detective Christian Kolowsky. This lead takes them right to the top of the Amando Cartel No. 1 man Gonzales Amando, who thinks he is afflicted by a demon and seeks the help of a New York Catholic Priest, Father John Elliot, to exorcise it.
After listening to Amando’s confession the priest is very disturbed by what he knows about him but he could never go public with it. He is prohibited by Canon Law from saying private things he hears in the confessional to any other living person. Fortunately for him, Amando gives consent to discuss his case with a more senior priest experienced in exorcism.
So one Sunday before mass, Father Elliot could take it no more. He discusses the issues troubling his mind with the senior priest before mass. Whilst this is happening, the church help turned underground detective eavesdrops on the conversation in the sacristy while he helps the priests prepare for mass. He goes on to provide a useful break in the case to the Mothers’ Detective Agency.
Amando Gonzales wants the priest to pray for him at 6:00pm each day, if the priest fails he would kill him— so goes the threat. The NYPD is monitoring his cell phone— he fears, they would have to meet on Twinty, the online site where avatars meet in built cities that look like their real world equivalents.
The Mothers’ Detective Agency hires the smartest geek in New York to assist them in remotely accessing Father Elliot’s computer.
There are many twists and turns in the story but the next time Gonzales Amando is forced by the demon to go to confession, the cops are waiting. But it is not they that finally take Amando during the fighting. It is Mrs. Gordiano, who would never let the man escape like other witnesses have.
The Police have only Amando Gonzalez in their custody but he is non-prosecutable. The Doctor says he suffers from Paranoid Schizophrenia, so he is sent to a maximum security mental health facility.
Though he is wanted by the NYPD as much as the Gordianos, there is nothing they could do until his sanity returns. There is nowhere else to turn since the Cartel members have vanished into thin air. All Mrs. Gordiano can do in the meantime, is pray very hard for the preservation and speedy recovery of her worst enemy.
This Novel is available as an ebook on Nook and Kindle after December 10