Alexa Hunt Corrupts Absolutely

Corrupts Absolutely

Alexa Hunt

A Columbian drug cartel has terrorized the American justice system by assassinating thousands of Judges, cops, federal agents and innocent bystanders ever since the Feds cracked down on Elevator, a cocaine Viagra combo. The media goes berserk over the slaughter of the lambs. The President of the United States declares a state of emergency and Congress passes a Martial Law Act that leads to the establishment of the Bureau of Illegal Substance Control (BISC) which serves as cop, judge, and jury allegedly to battle the drug cartel.

However, having absolute power proves too heady apparently for BISC and soon the FBI wonders if several of their agents have been assassinated by them. Former FBI Agent turned investigative reporter Elliott Delgado looks into determining whether the BISC has misused its authority by killing Federal agents who have found abuse in the bureau and whether the rumors are true that the organization is going to attack the drug cartel in Colombia regardless of collateral damage. BISC assassin Leah Berglund is sent to eliminate Delgado.

This terrific tale uses the maxim that absolute power corrupts absolutely even when caring people are involved...Readers will take immense delight in the story line in which the good guys (Delgado and the FBI) battles the bad guys (BISC) while the ugly (drug cartel) waits in the wings for round two. Though the romantic subplot between Elliot and Leah is distractingly thrown in, thriller fans will absolutely want to read Alexa Hunt's fine allegorical salute to the Patriot Act. Alexa Hunt furbishes the audience with a tense thriller

Harriet Klausner

St. Martin's, May 2005, $24.95, 332 pp.

ISBN: 0765311496