The Godfather teams with Dirty Harry to bend the law around Scarface.
The impossible goal of Judd Rayburn, El Paso assistant district attorney, and his best friend, Zuni Indian special F.B.I. agent Joe Feather, is to win the war against the Colombian/Mexican drug cartels who supply the drugs crossing the Mexico border with the US. After a huge, well planned drug bust at the Mexico border with members of the El Paso Police, DEA, ATF and Texas Rangers goes horrifically wrong, Judd and Joe begin to take the law into their own hands.
Enter Rikki Rhine, Navy fighter pilot and first female Top Gun winner, who just happens to be the former college flame of Judd Rayburn. She’s smart, pretty and daring. Together Rikki and Judd form their own jury. Through unforeseen circumstance, they meet the head of all twenty-three families of the U.S. based La Cosa Nostra, and actually find some common ground. It’s all about the money. Billions of dollars are involved in this high-stakes game of power, greed, deception and seemingly unfair justice. Whatever it takes to win.
Secret and forbidden romances abound in this international thriller. The cartel’s actions are beyond grievous, they’re heinous. The court room drama and unique solution to the problem of drugs in America will astound you. Can a form of Gray Justice legitimize organized crime in America and end the drug problem? And, as a side issue, clean up “The Swamp” in Washington, D.C.?
Fiction, Action/Thriller/ Courtroom Drama
Gray Justice, Logline: “The Godfather teams with Dirty Harry to bend the law around Scarface. (The Book ends drugs, organized crime and drains the swamp in Washington. From a top Justice Department attorney; “If the circumstances lined up and the D.O.J. had the fortitude to carry it out, this would work.”
Editorial Reviews:
The concept of this story evolves from the politically incorrect cowboy attitude that is the direct cause of most of America’s problems at home and abroad. The country has set up so many security organizations and law-enforcement agencies that the left hand has no idea what the right foot is doing, because it’s busy tripping over the right knee. So the only way to get anything done in this complex SNAFU is for some independent Rambo-type character to go wild and take care of it himself.
This gives the author scope to start and end the story with two wonderful action sequences, with bullets and blood flying in all directions. The middle of the book is taken up with the procedures of a trial big enough to attract national media attention. This in turn creates a problem for the author with size of trial and the excess of detail needed to understand it all. This is dealt with pretty well, considering, because Mumford has done his research, and can give us enough fascinating detail to keep us interested. He also does a good job of revealing the bottom-to-top implications of the difficulty of stopping the drug trade, from single agents dealing with individual criminals all the way up to top-level government officials and elected politicians.
The fantasy gets even more fantastical when the heroes create an assault team of ex-CIA and mercenaries and go on a rescue mission with the help of the US Navy. Then the happily-ever-after ending solves the War on Drugs with a definitely creative solution. I received a complimentary copy with no requirement for a review. – Gordon A. Long
Well written. A criminal enforcement novel with spy issues. Great characters including organized crime, the military, court room scenarios. Lots of action. Compares well with Michael Connelly. Tarantino might come out of retirement to direct this. Known Ron since we both had more hair. Good to see him put out some very nice literature. – David Freedman
