Columbian Gold (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798295447532)

Brill Wingfield returns in a high-octane maritime thriller where the only law is survival.

Brill Wingfield is lying low in Cartagena, burned out from his last operation and looking for a quiet place to disappear. But trouble has a way of finding him. When a desperate American software engineer stumbles into a dive bar begging for help, Brill is pulled back into the world he tried to leave behind.

The man's wife, famous true-crime podcaster Emma Chen, has been kidnapped from a luxury cruise ship in the middle of the night. The cruise line calls it piracy. The authorities call it a tragedy. But Brill knows better.

This wasn't a robbery. It was a harvest.

Teaming up with a local fisherman and a rogue detective who is tired of looking the other way, Brill plunges into the lawless labyrinth of the Colombian coast. From the gritty streets of Cartagena to the hidden mangroves of the San Bernardo Archipelago, he hunts a ghost known only as "Cazador"-a pirate kingpin protected by high-level corruption.

But as Brill peels back the layers of the operation, he uncovers a terrifying truth: the pirates are just the delivery service. They are feeding a global human trafficking pipeline run by an untouchable American billionaire who believes he can buy anything-even people.

Outmanned, outgunned, and operating without a safety net, Brill must launch a suicidal rescue mission into international waters. To save the hostages, he'll have to turn a rusted trawler into a warship and take on a private army at sea.