Title: Dragon Tamer

Author:Cole Barton

ISBN: 1553952766

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Blake Morgan is a DEA agent. He is involved in two
major arrest operations, one involving drug running in
Mexico, and the other involving drug and people
smuggling in Seattle. Both are solid arrests, the kind
where convictions are practically guaranteed. That is,
until both suspects are released, and granted immunity
from prosecution by someone very high in the CIA.
Supposedly, they are also good sources of information
for the Agency. Blake knows that something very
strange is happening.

Blake was born in a Japanese concentration camp in
World War II Hong Kong. His parents, a Welsh father
and a Hispanic mother, did not survive the war. Blake
was adopted by Wang Chan, a rising member of the Hong
Kong business community. Soon before the arrests
mentioned above, Wang Chan is found murdered. Like
most Hong Kong businessmen, there are rumors that he
was involved in illegal activities. Unsatisfied with
the pace of the official investigation, Chan's son,
Raymond, goes to the Hong Kong triads (gangsters) and
asks for their help in avenging his father's death.

While all this is going on, Blake gets word of a
proposed alliance between one of the triads and a
Mexican drug cartel, assisted by whomever in the CIA
is in the habit of releasing drug dealers from prison.
Profits are down, so it is proposed that they get
together and market an ancient, and quite powerful,
Mayan drug called jfuri. Just to make things more
interesting, Blake has fallen in love with DEA Special
Prosecutor Angela Townsend. It is up to Blake to fight
his way through the conspiracies, corruption and
general lying to get to the bottom of this, once and
for all.

This is an excellent novel. Thriller readers will love
it. The reader will be involved from start to finish,
it feels very plausible, and the author knows what he
is talking about, having actually been born in a World
War II concentration camp in Hong Kong. This gets two
thumbs up.

More to come,
Paul Lappen