Published May 2, 2023 | 345 pages | Paperback
A guilt-ridden former soldier, once part of a government death-squad, is hired to rescue a Cartel kingpin’s beloved niece from U. S. custody.
And finds himself plunged into a nightmare of crime and vengeance.
In what a reviewer called a “hard-boiled exercise in the netherworld of crime, politics and loyalty," a top-secret intelligence agency orders an operative to investigate the gruesome murder of a DEA agent in Mexico. Is it possible that the man now eyeing the top job at the CIA may have ordered the DEA agent’s torture and murder? What dark truth was the agent’s death intended to cover up? Can the operative unravel the truth before he too is killed.
Meanwhile, after a bloody gun battle in the Baja Mexico mountains, the former soldier rescues the kingpin’s neice but finds himself ensnared in a terror of evolving plots and a web of lies that could cost his life. In the end, he waits on a hillside with a sniper’s rifle, his target the man who set the plots in motion and who may have been responsible for the DEA agent’s death.
R. H. Emmers has had a number of careers in his life: reporter and editor, crisis communications consultant, private detective, and insurance fraud investigator. Ten years ago, he decided to devote himself to writing. At first, it was short stories, a number of which were published in literary magazines. Emmers also published a collection called Lynerkim’s Dance and Other Stories, which is available on Amazon. The Secret History is his first novel, and it grew out of his fascination with Mexico, particularly Baja, and an eagerness to look beneath the surface of the intelligence apparatus (the Dark State, if you will).
