Chagos Archipelago
A Novel
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A Spanish woman trying to retire as an assassin, a French Foreign Legion deserter from Madagascar, a mysterious (perhaps CIA) woman from America, a billionaire military contractor, and a man wandering the seas alone on a sailing ship bump into each other in the Indian Ocean, and not all of them survive.
Mónica has had enough of her life as a contract killer when she meets lonely wanderer Frank Baltimore in a stupidly expensive resort in Madagascar. A few hundred miles away, Alain has had more than enough of his solitary post on a tiny island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, and so when the mysterious Skye offers him a job, he says yes—he doesn’t know if she is CIA, Wagner, Darkwater, or a gangster, but he wants in. She takes him to Diego Garcia, the top-secret US military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean, for training. Things turn ugly and deadly when a man from Frank’s past turns up trying to break into the lucrative, secretive, already crowded world of paramilitary contractors. He, Monica, Alain, and Skye end up on his bad side and turn to each other for help.
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Troubled lives intersect in the Indian Ocean with explosive results in Lutz's tantalizing follow-up to Born Slippy. Frank Baltimore worked in construction until one of his employees started laundering money and gave Frank a cut of the proceeds, leaving him rich yet distrustful of his own moral compass. Trained assassin Mónica, who served prison time for killing her abusive stepfather before becoming a mercenary for hire, is contemplating retirement as the thrill of her work has begun to fade. The two meet by chance on vacation in Madagascar. Meanwhile, Alain, a member of the French Foreign Legion assigned to a solitary post near a U.S. naval base on a small island in the Indian Ocean, is haunted by his own regrets about betraying someone close to him, and tries to outrun his guilt by taking a mysterious job with Darkwater, a private military contractor. When Frank's criminality comes back to bite him—with unexpected international implications—he, Mónica, and Alain form an uneasy alliance. Lutz keeps the plot moving at a steady clip while delving deep into his characters' psyches, setting the stage for a shocking climax that lands with devastating emotional force. Neo-noir fans will eat this up.
