13

Dante Mercer has spent his life doing work that never officially happened.When he is hired to recover a missing teenage girl, he expects a dirty private job: corruption, violence and lies.He does not expect the trail to lead from traffickers and Russian oligarchs to Whitehall's sealed rooms — and into a shadow war between two private power structures whose roots reach back centuries.To keep the girl alive, Mercer must survive assassins, compromised officials and men protected by wealth, influence and governments that would rather look the other way.But the deeper he goes, the less this looks like a simple rescue.Old files surface. Long-buried connections begin to move. And behind the violence lies a history of bloodlines, inheritance and secrets powerful enough to have survived generations.Mercer knows how to fight enemies he can see.The ones waiting in the shadows are another matter.THE 13 is the first book in The Thirteen Trilogy.