South: A Near-Future Thriller

Border walls. Muslim registries. Refugees fleeing the U.S.
In 2013, it was a warning. Now it's the news.
What's next? Read it before it happens.

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Luis Ojeda owes his life to the Pacifico Norte cartel. Literally. Now it's time to pay.

Luis helped American Muslims escape the U.S. during the ten years following a major terrorist attack on Chicago. He retired after a border guard left him near death. Now in 2032, the Nortes give Luis a choice: pay back the fortune they spent saving his life, or take on a special client: Nora Khaled.

Nora – FBI agent, mother, and Muslim – knows her husband will be exiled to one of the nation's remote prison camps to rot with over 400,000 other Muslim Americans. Faced with her family's destruction, she's forced to turn to Luis, the kind of man she's spent her career bringing to justice.

But when the FBI publicly accuses Nora of terrorism, Luis learns Nora has proof that the nation's recent history is based on a lie – a lie that reaches to the government's highest levels.

Torn between self-preservation and the last shreds of his idealism, Luis guides Nora and her family toward refuge in civil war-wracked Mexico. The FBI, a dogged ICE agent, killer drones, bandits, and the fearsome Zeta cartel all plan to stop him. Success might free Luis from the Nortes… but failure means disappearing into a black-site prison, or a gruesome death for them all.

In a day-after-tomorrow America where government has been downsized and outsourced into irrelevance, and none but the very wealthy few can afford hopes or dreams, Luis and Nora must learn to trust each other to ensure the survival of the truth – and of the people they love.