Please welcome Paty Jager author of Secrets of an Aztec Temple.
Christine, Thank you for having me here today to talk about
the second book in my Isabella Mumphrey series.
Are you an adrenaline junkie?
My son-in-law is, and he works for law enforcement. His
comment was: As a kid he had to decide which side of the law he wanted to be
on. He chose the nobler side.
My hero, Tino Constantine, in Secrets of an Aztec Temple
isn’t so much an adrenaline junkie as a person who is highly motivated to take
down the person responsible for the deaths of his family. He finds himself in high pressure situations
as an undercover DEA agent and having to do things that go against his moral
code to get in deeper with the man he wants to put in prison. He can’t just
kill the man. That would make him just like the man he loathes. No, he has to
first find out all he can about the man’s drug cartel for the DEA. If something
happens to the drug lord along the way, he can call it karma.
Just how far will he go? How badly does he want revenge?
That’s something he has to figure out as the woman who captured his heart in
the Guatemalan jungle arrives in Mexico City. In fact, she is escorted into the
drug dealer’s house by his right hand man. How can Tino do his job when the
woman he loves could get caught in the middle of a drug war that will leave no
winners?
Which would you put first revenge or love?
Blurb Secrets of an Aztec Temple:
Revenge is not always sweet…
Isabella
Mumphrey can’t leave a puzzle alone. This time she attempts to use her
anthropology knowledge to uncover who is stealing priceless artifacts from an
Aztec Temple in Mexico City. She believes the discovery will prove her worth to
the World Intelligence Agency.
Tino
Costantine is also in Mexico City. He has infiltrated a drug lord’s
organization to find enough evidence to not only prove the man’s illegal
activities, but to bring him down for numerous deaths. Namely those of Tino’s
family.
But
when the love of his life, Isabella, strolls into his enemy’s home, Tino is
challenged with the choice of saving her or fulfilling his revenge.
Excerpt:
Garza’s teeth curled back in a feral smile as he
nodded his head. “I like your thinking, but I wish them alive. I need to set
some rules the two pendejos need to
learn.”
“Does Cezar know where they are?” Garza’s right
hand man had been missing for the last hour. Tino suspected he was gathering
information on the whereabouts of the brothers.
“Cezar is escorting a special guest here. But
Hector has been following the two and called to tell me he lost them in the colonias.”
“I’ll start there.” Tino turned to leave.
“Rodriguez. If you cannot bring them in, do not
show your face here again.”
The threatening tone punctuated what he already
knew. If he didn’t bring the Alvarez brothers back he would be hunted down and
killed because he’d witnessed and participated in illegal activities.
“I will be back with your guests.”
Tino exited the office congratulating himself at
having made it to Garza’s inner sanctum, but now realized there were two more
doors that would need breeched before he could find the evidence to bring in
the Drug Enforcement Agency.
His mind wandered to how to find the Alvarez
brothers and make his way up in status to gain entry into the room behind the
bullet-proof door. He stepped out onto the front portico. Cezar walked alongside
a woman who carried herself in a familiar way.
Tino’s blood iced with fear as he recognized the
long hair, button nose, and wire-rimmed glasses. Another glance at the woman he
knew so well and the ice melted, simmered, and quickened his heart. What brought
his querida to the drug lord’s Mexico
City compound? Dread, desire, and regret collided as he blindly slammed into a
cement pillar.
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Bio
Award winning author Paty Jager
is a member of national and local writing organizations. She not only writes
the western lifestyle she lives it. With sixteen novels and several short
stories published, she continues to have characters cavorting in her head.
You can learn more about Paty
at her blog; www.patyjager.blogspot.com her website; http://www.patyjager.net or on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/#!/paty.jager
, Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1005334.Paty_Jager and twitter;
@patyjag.
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5 comments:
Thanks for having me here today, Christine!
Two of my favorite writer friends at the same blog--sure brightened my day. Paty, your energy amazes me! I hope sales of your latest book (and all of them) are going well!
Hey Genene! Thanks for stopping in! As much as people who have read this new series love it, it is disheartening to see that the sales are actually a bit dismal. Not sure how I need to promote differently to get the attention.
I'm interested in the Aztec culture, nut I don't know anything about it. What kind of research did you have to do for the book?
catherinelee100 at gmail dot com
Hi Catherine, Luckily the Aztec culture plays a small role in this action adventure so I only read a couple of the books that were recommended as good layman's information about the Aztecs to give some credence to my story when I did talk about them. And I researched the museum that is in the book and a part of the Aztec Temple that was found under Mexico City.
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