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Izzy Cavanal
Waking in a Santa Fe, NM hospital with a breathing tube in his throat, former international drug smuggler, turned D.E.A. informant Rory Jacobs hears doctors discussing his critical medical condition. Barely surviving a second hit by the Cali cartel, he’s reluctant to let the feds protect him again. He convinces them to let him return to his hometown of Poteau, OK to hide in plain sight with a new face and identity after recovering from extensive plastic surgery. An unexpected meeting with his high school friend Izzy and her teenage daughter Sasha triggers feelings of regret over leaving Poteau before their high school graduation 27 years ago without saying goodbye to Izzy. He’s torn between maintaining his cover and telling Izzy the truth, knowing the five million dollar cartel bounty on his life will put Izzy and Sasha in danger.
202 pages, Paperback
Published November 17, 2015
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December 6, 2015
THE CAVANAL SISTERS
By Joe Harwell
Joe Harwell Publishing, 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1517308643
This novel opens with the main character in the hospital after a shoot out. He is on the run from the drug cartel.
Here is the opening:
“Will he live?” asked Justice Department Special Agent Ron Thompson.
“Most people wouldn’t have survived the blood loss,” replied Doctor Suarez. “He’s stable and there’s a chance if he makes it through the night. What do you know about him?”
“Nothing I can tell you.”
“I understand he’s under the Justice Department protection, but he’ll need to be kept here for several days if he’s to survive.”
With that opening, our main character of mystery, a man who has had his face and identity changed, goes back to the town he grew up in and left before he graduated from high school.
As the story develops the reader finds out that this man now called Keith Overton goes into protective custody identity.
The idea of a man going back to a little town he left so abruptly thirty years ago is a good setting for this character. We get to know a little about him as he makes friends and develops his sign shop business.
He hires the daughter of a high school sweetheart and encourages her in her art-work at his sign shop and in her relationships with her parents. He makes friends and fits into the community.
Everything is going well for him until a snoopy attorney puts a request for information about him through the national data banks. Then the cartel finds him and there is a confrontation.
I enjoyed the book. I give it a four out of five because there were several points in the plot that I felt needed to be a little more developed. For example it turns out that he is in on planning to lure the drug lord to the little town. This is not well developed. Why would you bring them to a place you once considered home. Then there is the ending, he doesn’t die, but the loose ends are wrapped up like we are hearing a will. So that’s my opinion. I was provided a copy of this book for my honest review.
By Joe Harwell
Joe Harwell Publishing, 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1517308643
This novel opens with the main character in the hospital after a shoot out. He is on the run from the drug cartel.
Here is the opening:
“Will he live?” asked Justice Department Special Agent Ron Thompson.
“Most people wouldn’t have survived the blood loss,” replied Doctor Suarez. “He’s stable and there’s a chance if he makes it through the night. What do you know about him?”
“Nothing I can tell you.”
“I understand he’s under the Justice Department protection, but he’ll need to be kept here for several days if he’s to survive.”
With that opening, our main character of mystery, a man who has had his face and identity changed, goes back to the town he grew up in and left before he graduated from high school.
As the story develops the reader finds out that this man now called Keith Overton goes into protective custody identity.
The idea of a man going back to a little town he left so abruptly thirty years ago is a good setting for this character. We get to know a little about him as he makes friends and develops his sign shop business.
He hires the daughter of a high school sweetheart and encourages her in her art-work at his sign shop and in her relationships with her parents. He makes friends and fits into the community.
Everything is going well for him until a snoopy attorney puts a request for information about him through the national data banks. Then the cartel finds him and there is a confrontation.
I enjoyed the book. I give it a four out of five because there were several points in the plot that I felt needed to be a little more developed. For example it turns out that he is in on planning to lure the drug lord to the little town. This is not well developed. Why would you bring them to a place you once considered home. Then there is the ending, he doesn’t die, but the loose ends are wrapped up like we are hearing a will. So that’s my opinion. I was provided a copy of this book for my honest review.
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