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Rich Miller
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Impacted by the recession, 24-year-old artist Gina McKenna is down to her last few dollars and days away from living in her car when a successful businessman buys a painting and commissions another. As their relationship evolves, she's seduced by his charm and mesmerized by his luxurious lifestyle until she discovers he's a drug kingpin. As her world turns upside down, she struggles to survive vicious brutality.
Miguel Lopez is a cocaine supplier with a weightlifter's physique and 'the rules do not apply to me' attitude. Maniacal and ruthless, he has no qualms about killing anyone who interferes with his distribution network, including Gina.
Dedicated to eradicating illegal drugs, DEA Special Agent Bobby Garcia spent months and hundreds of thousands of dollars working undercover to buy his way up a dealer chain to identify the moneyman. When his 14-year-old daughter overdoses on cocaine, he traces the blow to Lopez. As Bobby's mission becomes personal, he makes emotional decisions, which negatively impact civilians and his job. Unable to let go, he risks his career to orchestrate the biggest drug sting in Southern California. What happens isn't what he expected.
When a deputy district attorney meets Gina at a party, he is smitten. As his attraction grows, so does Gina's involvement with the DEA's case, of which he is the designated prosecutor. Mindful of his professional ethics, he tries to stifle his feelings.
Sex and violence permeate the twists and turns of this cautionary tale about choosing one's friends well.
©2017 Michele I. Khoury (P)2017 Michele I. KhouryListeners also enjoyed...
Although this is an unusual and exciting story, replete with interesting factual information, for this reader it was somewhat marred by the unbelievably naive lead character, Gina, (had she never heard of taking a paying job whilst waiting to be discovered as an artist: the one does not preclude the other?) and the constant use by the author of the word blow, instead of coke or cocaine or even any other possible slang alternatives, as if trying, too hard, to establish street credibility. The protagonists were, almost without exception, well drawn, however, and the frustrations of the undercover cop who knows all of the necessary facts but has no hard evidence to back them sufficient to force an arrest or even secure the very information to obtain it, is palpable.
Narrator, Rich Miller gives an excellent performance: well paced with good intonation, his rich, fairly deep voice also differentiated the assorted speakers in their conversations, not attempting realistic female voices but indicating them with slightly lighter tone. Listening to his reading was one of the pleasures of the book.
My thanks to the rights holder of Busted who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy, via Audiobook Boom. This book is, in it's own way, a cry for change in the system without being preachy. It tells a story, offers some relevant facts, and leaves the audience to make up their own minds - or not bother to go beyond the simple thriller itself. Lots of action, well fleshed out characters combined with bad choices, indicision and, sometimes, of fear. Despite my small reservations about the way in which this book was written, still worth reading.
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