Fireline: BOOK III - Burn Out the Truth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798276312606)

The fire was never the enemy. The men who controlled it were.

The city is burning again-this time from the inside out.

Detective-turned-arsonist Harrow is gone, swallowed by a tower of fire that should have ended everything. But for firefighter Nicholas Torres, the flames left behind something far worse: answers. Answers that point to a man whose name had been whispered through every crime scene, every ledger, every fireline he survived.

S. Montalvo.

The man above Vega.

The architect in the shadows.

The one Harrow served like a weapon.

When a new wave of coordinated fires erupts across the city-industrial sites, derelict buildings, and even public infrastructure-Nicholas realizes Harrow was never the final threat. He was only the gatekeeper.

Worse: Emilia Serrano, Nicholas's wife and a homicide detective, regains consciousness long enough to deliver a message that shatters Nicholas to the bone:

"Don't trust anyone.

Everyone at the station...

They're all involved."

Before falling back into critical condition.

Now Nicholas has only two people he can rely on:

his broken brother-in-arms Raúl Cornelio, and the truth waiting inside the charred briefcase recovered from the high-rise ruins.

As corruption bleeds into every unit, every agency, every command post, Nicholas is forced into a new kind of fire-one without gear, without water, without backup. A fire where the enemies wear badges, turnout coats, and smiles.

The deeper he goes, the more he understands:

Fire didn't create this conspiracy.

Fire was the tool.

Men like Montalvo were the match.

With the city on the edge of collapse and a shadow network tightening around him, Nicholas must decide how far he'll go to expose the truth-and how many lines he's willing to burn to reach it.

Because this war didn't end in the high-rise.

It started there.

And in FIRELINE III, Nicholas Torres steps into the flames not to survive...

but to strike back.