The Council of Ten

Description

When his drug-smuggling grandmother is murdered for informing on her employers, a journalist takes justice into his own hands Four old women return from a Bahamas vacation with four more suitcases than they had when they left. They leave them behind at baggage claim, and a stranger picks them up-disappearing with the extra suitcases and the hundreds of pounds of cocaine they hold. The grandmothers are smugglers, supplementing their social security with criminal income, but one of them is tired of the deception. Doris goes to the DEA to out her boss, a vicious drug lord named Trelana, and when he learns she has snitched, her age does not buy mercy. Doris's grandson, Drew Jordan, is a journalist with fantasies of life as a commando. Now it's up to him to avenge the woman who raised him, and get retribution even if the whole international drug trade stands in his way.

Jon Land is the USA Today-bestselling author of The Tenth Circle, Pandora's Temple (winner of the 2012 International Book Award and nominated for a 2013 Thriller Award for Best E-Book Original Novel), and five other books featuring Blaine McCracken, Land's iconic series hero. He also pens the critically acclaimed Caitlin Strong series, which includes Strong Rain Falling and Strong Darkness, winners of the USA Best Book Award in 2013 and 2014, in the Mystery and Thriller categories, respectively. In The Eighth Trumpet and The Ninth Dominion, Land has McCracken team up with his other bestselling series hero, Jared Kimberlain. Land lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and can be found at jonlandbooks.com and on Twitter with the handle @jondland.

Praise for Jon Land "The greatest thriller writer alive today." -Bookviews "Jon Land shows a true feel for detective work and the irony of pursuing elusive principles of justice." -The New York Times Book Review "Land's pacing is masterful, giving the reader a sense that he is watching an action movie." -The Providence Sunday Journal "Nobody writes action like Jon Land, and few other authors can touch him for steamroller plots about real people and powerful, true-to-life issues." -John Lescroart, New York Times-bestselling author