After investigation came retribution, vindictive and
indiscriminate.
It’s the early 1980s and the height
of the Cold War when Steve Donovan, despite a checkered past,
troubled marriage, and no prospects, lands a job at the very bottom
of the intelligence world. He finds a kind of happiness in being
involved with shady people in unsavory activities until he is
suddenly promoted over the heads of fifty-nine colleagues by his
Section chief, who is himself being promoted.
Steve’s boss Frank is handing him the responsibility for
Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by Western
governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints.
The deadly team has filled several drawers at a Chicago morgue and
Steve and Frank fly out to investigate why.
With three days left until Christmas, their investigation uncovers
tragedies, past, present, and perhaps, yet to come in their
futures. Frank appears to be the next target, but is Steve as well?
It is difficult to tell because truth is hard to come by and
deception obscures everything and everyone they speak to. Loyalties
are hidden, moral codes nonexistent.
Can
Steve convince Charlemagne not to kill his boss without putting
himself in the crosshairs of their revenge? And just how far is he
willing to go to save the innocent?
Cetus Wedge is the second novel in K.A. Bachus’s fast-paced Charlemagne Files series chronicling the lives of a team of deadly Cold War intelligence operatives over three decades.
