The Vicious Cycle: A Ronan Marino Mystery

by Lloyd L. Corricelli

For the first time in years, former Air Force Special Agent Ronan Marino enjoys a period of relative calm in his life. His relationship with a beautiful doctor has progressed to the point of serious commitment, his family has accepted his post-military career as a private detective not for hire and he’s even considering investing in a bar and grill with an old friend. That peace however is short lived as a new challenge, unlike any he has ever faced, confronts Ronan head on. An outlaw motorcycle club has moved into Lowell and brazenly challenged the reigning Colombian cartel for control of the local drug trade, threatening an all out gang war. Ronan vows to stay out of it and leave the problem to the police but when his girlfriend develops a dangerous addiction to drugs the bikers are peddling and a friend is found murdered execution style, he refuses to remain on the sidelines and once again finds himself rushing in where even angels fear to tread. Using all the resources at his disposal, including allies on both sides of the law, he’s determined to solve the murder, take down the gang and prevent a wave of violence unlike anything ever seen in his hometown.

328 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 28, 2011