credible and expands the genre. The Tilted Truth introduces a heroic and attractive duo: the mysterious and clever CIA agent Major Ben Kloes, and the ambitious and proficient FBI Special Agent Caterina “Cat” Morella. There are many surprising developments in this action-packed narrative and the psychological underpinnings that motivate each character come into play in a maze of perverse sex and manipulation interspersed with the intrigue of clandestine operations and government entrapment, all ending in a diabolical turn of events. The story opens with likable, but flawed, Adam Symansky living life to the hilt and selling cocaine to a white-collar clientele in Los Angeles where he befriends con man Barry Vador, a casino owner and drug supplier. A DEA raid results in Vador’s arrest and imprisonment on drug charges. Shaken, Adam renounces dealing and becomes a respected family man. Seven years later, Vador is released part way through his prison sentence in return for signing up to be an informant and facilitator for CIA and FBI operations in his casinos in Nassau and Aruba. Behind his handlers' backs he decides to secretly expand his empire. Needing cash to do it, he contacts Adam to invest in a casino in Montevideo. It’s a hoax, and the elaborate con leaves Adam broke and in trouble. A rumor about a new club opening in Panama leads Adam to suspect his money deviously went to build it, and he embarks on a vendetta to claim his interest. During the quest innocent people are killed and maimed by Vador and his half-sister, Electra, as well as wrongly accused of crimes by the feds as they pull out all stops to hinder Adam and protect their informant. CIA agent Ben Kloes runs covert operations out of Vador’s casinos. He teams up with FBI Special Agent Cat Morella and uses her as bait in the Aruba club to turn a high-level foreign government official. Together, they stop terrorists in Panama from blowing up the casino there and foil them in their real mission to destroy locks on the canal with a suitcase nuke. In the Nassau club, Cat runs a sting operation to capture a notorious criminal gang. Throughout the story, Electra and Vador maintain a genetic sexual attraction. She thwarts relations he has with other women and seduces a prominent military general who has public office ambitions and ultimately destroys his career. In a twist ending, Vador runs from his greatest fear, a shadowy stalker with his own long simmering vendetta. Faced with the prospect of a slow tortured death at the hands of this enemy while unnerved by the psychological warfare implemented by Adam to recover his life savings and chafing under the control of his handlers, Vador decides to disappear. He needs a cash hoard to do it and executes a plan to con the FBI out of its sting money, the criminal gang out of funds they were laundering through his club in Nassau, and, in the process, double cross the CIA. Too late he realizes this was a mistake. Or, was it? This fast-paced, riveting story is hard to put down and will leave readers satisfied and exhilarated.

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