"A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney's Audible Original drama, Armored. Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent-a professional bodyguard- and, as such, he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high-the loss of Josh's lower left leg. There's not much call for a high-end guardian with such an injury....

Saving the lives of two American archaeologists who nearly drown in a sacrificial pool in the Andes Mountains, Dirk Pitt becomes unwittingly involved in a sinister crime organization that has discovered an ancient treasure.

Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse...

Juan Pablo and his best friend, Rocio, follow his grandmother's guidance--and the butterfly migration--to Pacific Grove, California, pursued by the drug traffickers he tried stop in their small Mexican town.

In a country where the line between good and evil is blurred, where the authorities are feared even more than the criminals, a journalist is going through a veritable living hell: his life is threatened, his wife kidnapped, he is witness to the worst possible atrocities, pursued by the bodyguards sworn to protect him. The only thing that is certain in a life of uncertainties is the absolute possibility of a violent death, mutilated by those who know...