Three Novels and a Novella, Sequels:
Story Ties
"The first Kris Klug novel was powerfully propelled by questions. 'How can I find justice? 'How can I rid myself of my past?' ‘Why does evil follow me? And the answers that he gets in the first novel, Mojave Winds, are satisfying, but not complete.
In the second novel, A Sufi’s Ghost, Klug helps his Army buddy, Larry Larson, to return to Saudi Arabia. This loyalty to an old friend only places him into deeper danger as mercenaries go looking for Klug on the suspicion that he might know the location of the treasure Larson uncovered in Saudi Arabia. Is there no reward for moral good?
In the novella, Stay Frosty, a story included in the collection, Californians and Other Cowboys, Klug finds a biker gang that kidnapped a friend of his wife. He wins the battle with these amateur gangsters selling contraband from across the Mexican border.
However, in the third novel, Mexican Trade, he soon learns that he has not won the war. This third novel has to resolve some of these questions. By the end of this novel, you have to understand how Kris Klug finds peace after pursuing a military career, hoping to fight for a justified war.”
—Lauren Milicov, novelist, editor
In Mojave Winds, Kris Klug tried to find peace in his own country and to live a normal life. In A Sufi’s Ghost, he helped his old battle buddy, Larry Larson gain passage back into Saudi Arabia, where Larson seeks to exact justice for what was done to him. Now, in Mexican Trade, evil comes calling on Klug again and he’s determined to find out why. He has only three words for his pursuers: "I know you."
Kris Klug returns as a trained assassin for the latest showdown in the Klug series, Mexican Trade. In the follow-up to Mojave Winds and A Sufi’s Ghost—the smash hits that earned wide popularity, again Kris Klug guides us through a breathtaking international thriller that allows us to crisscross the border between the North and Latin Americas as he stays a step ahead of his would-be assassins.
In the world of treachery, political manipulation and corruption, an intricate plot switchbacks as the Klug series sets a new standard. With an innovative story structure that rewards fans who have followed Mojave Winds to A Sufi’s Ghost, and Califonians and Other Cowboys.
Now Mexican Trade twists into underground worlds of darkness. Capitalizing on the suspenseful tensions of Mojave Winds, Biskeborn understands that readers demand intelligent espionage stories that wrench the heart.
We find Klug living as a man distraught when his wife disappears. Subjected to brutal attacks and constantly followed by people he can't identify, Klug learns little by little why there is an organized group trying to capture him. It has something to do with his long-time brother-in-arms, Larry Larson, who helped the wife of a Saudi prince to escape Saudi Arabia and, more importantly, stole a sacred and secret text of tremendous political and religious value. Trained to behave as a sophisticated soldier—one of the toughest soldiers the Pentagon has ever produced, since he was dishonorably discharged from the military after serving extended missions in the Middle East years ago—he has been on a desperate quest to learn who his tormentors are and discover why they are determined to destroy him and whatever civilian life he attempts to build.
After his wife, Sheila, disappears, kidnapped by an assassin's ruse, however, all Klug wants is to find her and revenge the criminals. During his entire military career, he was hoping to fight a justified battle. Now he fights for his own survival. His assassins come close enough to harm him to the edge of his life, and it’s only by the generosity of the Zapatistas, a Mexican revolutionary group, that finds him and nurses him back to health. A member of the revolutionary group, Della, an elegant woman who rejects her aristocratic origins, helps him and shows him that his attackers are the same military group, the Zetas, that the Zapatistas are fighting. The Zetas take their orders from a powerful drug lord. Klug agrees to find and put an end to this man, el Conejo, who was at the source of Sheila’s brutal murder in California. Once he unravels the mystery behind the constant attacks against him, and extracts a justice against the source of so much pain, what he craves is to forever disappear and forget the life stolen from him. But a front-page story in a Mexican newspaper that speculates about his existence ends that hope, and he finds himself once again a hunted man.
Xe, the top-secret black-ops defense contractor that had once trained Klug, is now defunct. It has been re-imagined as a new private militia program, rebranded as Backwater, with a new generation of experienced mercenaries— hidden from governmental oversight—yet still a government contractor. To them, Klug is a high-value asset, a malfunctioning threat, who must be captured, once and for all. To him, they are the only link to a life he has tried in vain to forget.
Klug has reached the end of his rope. This time, he will not let his dreams of a normal life get in his way to kill those who relentlessly hunt him. With nothing left to lose, he will use every skill of his soldiering and every bit of his instincts to go after his pursuers and finish the torment.
His quest takes him from his dream business in Las Vegas and Los Angeles to Mexico City and the dark back waters of Mexican wilderness and to the cocaine markets in Lima, evading, outsmarting, and outmaneuvering Backwater operatives, federal agents, and local police every step of the way—all in a desperate battle to find answers and to stop his enemies. Klug's journey will lead him face-to-face with the powerbrokers who pull the strings and issue the orders.
