Chasing Freedom, Against All Enemies 3, The Prequel
Chasing Freedom, book 3 in the Against All Enemies trilogy, is the prequel, but was written to be read last. This high-action, romantic suspense novel tells the story of a young woman, an international scholar, whose family flees to the US because of death threats from a drug cartel. It's also the story of Jeff Jacobs, a disgraced Olympic decathlete who wants his honor back, and who risks his life to give the young woman and her family a chance at life and liberty as they battle both the drug cartel and a broken immigration system that has lost sight of the intent of American asylum laws.
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Why had Papa picked this rundown, isolated restaurant to rendezvous with her? The Sinaloa Cartel's personal vendetta against him had frightened them all, but Redding, California was a thousand driving miles from their home in Nogales. Surely her family was safe here after fleeing to the U.S. from the border town.
Alejandra Santiago steered the compact car she’d rented in Corvallis into the parking lot of the small restaurant on the outskirts of Redding.
Above the mountains to the north, the top of Mount Shasta glowed pink in the fading twilight of the sweltering July evening. What little light remained revealed speckled white walls of a building in dire need of paint.
In his brief phone call, asking if Allie could drive down from the university to see them, Papa had mentioned threats made in Nogales against him and some against her little brother, Benjamin. The cartel was good at intimidation and threatening Benjamin would certainly accomplish that.
Allie, tell me again how this drug kills the germs.
As Benjamin's voice replayed in her mind, she pictured his large brown eyes expressing wonder at each new biological fact his sharp mind assimilated. But even her pharmacy program at Oregon State couldn’t supply enough medical facts to satisfy his ravenous appetite for knowledge.
She loved her family dearly, but Allie adored Benjamin. If the cartel tried to hurt him, she would shoot them all herself. No one, not even their notorious leader, El Capitan, could stop her.
Enough depressing thoughts about a cartel that was a thousand miles away.
Allie got out of her car and walked across the parking lot toward the restaurant, looking for Papa.
She gasped when a sweaty palm slapped over her mouth.
Chasing Freedom on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MAXJQWJ/
