The Venezuelan (Pete Cortez FBI Thrillers)

Selected as a Finalist for 2021 Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion Award for Best Thriller In a daring nighttime raid, a notorious Venezuelan terrorist is broken out of a remote prison compound deep in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. In the months following his escape, strange things begin to happen in Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana. At the urgent request of the CIA, FBI Special Agent Pete Cortez is temporarily assigned to the FBI’s Legal Attache office in the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, where he and Agency officer Clarice Robideaux are given the task of finding out not only who freed the Venezuelan, but more importantly, why. As Cortez and Robideaux follow the spidery tentacles of an intricate conspiracy with a global reach, their investigation leads them through a dizzying array of military, political, intelligence, law enforcement, and business interests, few of whom are really what they seem. What do all these seemingly disparate people have in common? The Venezuelan. THE VENEZUELAN is the third book in the Pete Cortez FBI Thriller series.