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A hard-hitting political thriller of covert operations, cartel violence, government corruption, assassinations, and rogue agents working outside the law.
The Subsection was created to stop corruption inside the government. Now it’s become a target itself.
The Subsection doesn’t officially exist.
Created in secret to protect Americans from the corruption spreading through their own government, the organization operates outside the law, taking on the cases nobody else will touch.
Cartels are using U.S. military resources to move drugs across the border. Terrorists are slipping between Canada and the United States unnoticed. Federal agencies are looking the other way while powerful people profit.
Detroit private investigator John Phault never expected to get caught in the middle of it. But a routine case drags him into a covert war involving assassinations, political corruption, and a secret black-ops team fighting enemies inside the system itself.
Now the CIA is closing in on the truth behind the Subsection’s existence, and the people pulling the strings are willing to bury anyone who gets too close.
Including Phault.
The Mercy of the Rope is a high-stakes conspiracy thriller in the Subsection series, perfect for readers who love black-ops action, covert intelligence teams, political corruption, cartel thrillers, vigilante justice, and relentless action in the style of Lee Child, John Grisham, and Dan Brown.
We’re all a product of our experiences. The more experiences you have, and the harder the road was to get to where you are now, the more you have to draw on when it comes time to write. In my life, I’ve been an armored car driver, process server, police officer, and spent most of 20 years working as a private investigator in and around the artful ruin that is modern Detroit. I’ve had close family members murdered, invested decades into a marriage that went bad, raised kids who turned out great, and got fired from jobs I desperately needed…. And through it all, I wrote. There were words in my head that I just needed to get onto paper, mostly fiction, but I never thought I could make any money at it. But life has a way of giving you what you need.
About twenty years ago, I started writing for outdoor magazines. That work put me in contact with Dillard “CJ” Johnson, whose autobiography, CARNIVORE, I co-wrote. CARNIVORE was published in 2012 by Harper Collins and has done very well.
There isn’t anything in the world that I love doing more than writing fiction. Currently, I’ve got seven novels out, with more on the way.I live outside of Detroit with my fiancée and a variable number of dogs—two of them at the moment, although that could change.