Sliced

by Michael Arches

Athena and Beau have settled down to a quiet life with their son Leo, but that doesn't last long. Out the of blue, Beau gets a call from his boss about a fiery traffic accident up in the mountains. The FBI doesn't usually investigate traffic cases, but when the firemen extinguished a blazing SUV in Kremmling, Colorado, they found a chopped up body in the back.And even weirder, the coroner discovers that the body is missing several vital organs neatly snipped away by someone skilled with a scapel. Beau learns that this person was enslaved and sent to a hidden human chop shop. Beau, along with his crimefighting partner Athena, soon find themselves tracking the most coldblooded serial killer in Colorado history.Here is a current listing of the books in the Vanished one—Snatched—available now—Amazon ID B07ZHSFSFQBook two—Nicked—available now—Amazon ID B08T5PF2WRBook three—Anointed—available now—Amazon ID B08T6NV52ZBook four—Sliced—Amazon ID B09BWVLWVLAnd thanks for reading my books!

189 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 3, 2021

About the author

Michael Arches moved to the Denver, Colorado area in the early 1980’s, and he has never left. Before coming to Denver, he had lived in eight different places, but he and his wife settled down in Colorado and raised their family here. The natural beauty of the Rocky Mountains attracted him here in the first place, and he’s still finding precious jewels in them there hills to write about.

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Reviews

[Barbara Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5***

Action filled adventure. Kept me engaged but in all honestly this was a guys kind of read. Tough, cartels, rape, murder, illegal body parts harvesting, mercenaries, hidden overseas bank accounts and total body armour. Very manly.

[Chris Hellerman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story

Another good book to read. Athena and Beau are a team! They always get the bad guys even if s little shady undercover work needs to be done.

[Donne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This latest installment of Michael Arches Vanished series picks up shortly after Anointed ended. One of the things that I have really liked about this series is the female lead MC, Athena, who is a bad@$$, former Federal Prosecutor, turned super sleuth and hacker after she was shot in the head and nearly killed by the cartel that she was prosecuting. After entering WITSEC, she secretly became a devout defender, advocate and savior for women who become victims of human trafficking.

This story centers around a band of doctors and kidnappers who harvest organs from women they kidnap or purchase from human traffickers. Of course, this pits them up against Athena, and her motley crew, who are searching for a friend who has been kidnapped by the human traffickers and sold off to an organ harvesting doctor. This is not a spoiler alert since it was disclosed in the first 15% of the book. In typical Athena fashion, she makes sure the doctor and his mob get the just end that they deserve.

The ending has a finality to it that I have not noticed in previous books. I hope this wasn’t the end of the series and that Arches will be continuing it. Time will tell.