Raiders of the Lina-Maria Kindle Edition

Raiders of the Lina-MariaA story of ambition, deceit, betrayal, violence, and revenge!Matt Tyler, an ex-special forces officer, arrives in Charleston, to live with his uncle temporarily and discovers his uncle has just been killed by a hit-and-run driver while walking home from the university where he was a professor. Matt soon learns his uncle was blackmailing Sophia Hallman, the woman expected to become the next U.S. president, with a video of an indiscretion from several years back.Matt doesn’t like politics but is assailed by those who want the Sophia video; some to expose her and knock her out of contention, and others who want to use the video to control Sophia after she is elected. But where is the video? No one knows! And Matt’s uncle promised exposure of Sophia’s video in the event of his sudden death!Illegal searches, FBI raids, beatings, kidnappings, and murders follow, including what the media labels as Carnage in Charleston, which leads to a raid on Lina-Maria.Laurent De Groot, the aged billionaire control freak who lives on Lina-Maria, is Sophia’s financial backer, and wants the Sophia video so he can control Sophia after she’s elected, and to keep her opponent from finding and using it. Haley Stone, a lithe young female reporter from Probe, a DC based tabloid who tries to romance Matt into finding and giving her the video.Police Lieutenant Katie Buchannan, who wants the video so she can sell it to Sophia’s opponent and buy an estate in Tuscany.Blake Sanders, Sophia’s campaign manager, wants to destroy the video to protect the $5M bonus promised by De Groot for Sophia’s nomination.Carlson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, who’s been on De Groot’s payroll for decades, wants the video so he can control Sophia after she’s elected and can block De Groot’s plans.Yannick, De Groot’s man for all those things attorneys and accountants can’t handle. A heartless killer, who sends assassin after Matt and others. Read more