Books by John Scheck
Luke is a CIA operative working for the Vanguardists, a small, secretive unit operating across Europe. Their job is to intervene quietly, deal with problems before they become crises, and protect American interests without provoking an international incident.
Gus is a different kind of operator. A former fixer who survived years working for three rival Mexican drug cartels, he has traded the criminal underworld for a new specialty: manufacturing success. He knows how to make people famous, turn obscure books into bestsellers, and create public enthusiasm where none existed before.
When Antoni, a man with dangerous connections, is killed in an apparent hit-and-run, he leaves behind a damning account of Serbian billionaire Radenko Graovac. With a past rooted in the wars of the former Yugoslavia, Graovac has reinvented himself as a respected businessman. He has money, political influence, and a ruthless instinct for self-preservation.
Luke sees an opportunity. If Graovac can't be brought down by conventional means, perhaps he can be discredited in the court of public opinion. With Gus orchestrating a campaign of manufactured stories and publicity, the Vanguardists set out to make the billionaire's carefully cultivated public image work against him.
But Graovac is accustomed to dealing with enemies permanently. As the campaign gains momentum, murder, intimidation, and retaliation become part of the game. And Luke's relationship with M, an American photographer who knows nothing about his real occupation, puts someone he cares about directly in the path of danger.
In a world where information can be manipulated, reputations manufactured, and truth buried, the most dangerous weapon may be the story everyone believes.
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Lines in the Sand continues the story begun in La Frontera Saga. As Ax and the Brotherhood expand their gun-theft operation, they collide once again with cartels, corrupt officials, and federal agents.
DEA agent Juan Rodríguez and ATF agent Cliff Owens are drawn into a deadly world of kidnappings, cartel warfare, and shifting loyalties. At the center of it all is Diego Valverde, a Spaniard determined to turn cartel wealth into opportunity and hope—but his vision makes him a target.
As Colonel Ignacio García and his elite soldiers wage relentless war against the cartels, alliances fracture, corruption spreads, and survival hangs in the balance.
A fast-moving, violent, darkly funny border thriller where every alliance has a price—and every line in the sand is meant to be crossed.
Lives of Crimes
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When the elite legal firms of Beverly Hills need problems erased for their most select clients, not argued in court or boardrooms, they contract downward to lesser law offices—ethically compromised “ambulance chasers” with no qualms about getting their hands dirty. Shadowy intermediaries are summoned like genies and the best of these is Tag, a veteran fixer with a brutal past, a dark personal code, and a clear warning to clients: vengeance comes at a cost they may not be able to afford in the end. But in Los Angeles, the rich are used to getting what they want, making Tag a very busy and rich man.
Contracted for a devastating act of retribution against Walter Greene, a Hollywood mogul with a dark legacy of sexual abuse, Tag penetrates Greene’s guarded world to exact the revenge his client sought, winning a battle but starting a war. Far from learning his lesson, Greene enlists his own fixer. Morgan is competent, detached, and even more ruthless. But instead of two champions from mythology facing off, like David and Goliath, or Achilles and Hector, Tag and Morgan don’t see themselves as enemies but friendly competitors in an illicit market that’s booming.
What follows is a shadowy war of revenge and spiraling violence, well outside the boundaries of the law and society.
After a haunting triple murder, Owens and her partner vow to step in when victims make twenty-seven unanswered calls for help, starting with a serial abuser linked to a missing woman. As Owens digs deeper, she uncovers McMillan’s ongoing sabotage and evidence tying him to the disappearances of multiple women. With the help of her partner, a crusading lawyer, and McMillan’s abused mistress seeking revenge, Owens devises a bold plan to take down the untouchable billionaire once and for all.
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Can the world’s biggest drug organization do business like a Fortune 500 company? Diego Valverde, a native of exceptionally peaceful and heavily taxed Spain, convinces the head of the Sinaloa Cartel to implement a program to improve the lives of the rural poor in Mexico through direct payments from drug profits, a form of self-taxation on their enormous illegal gains. Diego’s plan also calls for a unilateral renunciation of violence. While this strategy removes them from the radar of America anti-drug forces, it’s seen as a sign of weakness by the nihilistically murderous Zeta Cartel.
Two exceptionally talented DEA agents, one a cynical U.S. Army war veteran, the other an ambitious young woman, lead the American law enforcement interdiction effort with the aid of an incorruptible colonel in the Mexican Special Forces with a hand-picked team of elite soldiers. Another major player siding with the authorities is the head of security for Sinaloa who proves to be a ruthless warrior and invaluable in this war with the Zeta Cartel that becomes a deadly cat and mouse game of ambushes, intimidation, renditions, and assassination.
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