Catspaw ( Book 2, Deke Tanner Series)

The dictionary generally defines Catspaw in two ways: 1) a situation in which one character is unknowingly duped into doing something for another (a ruse) and, 2) a sailor's knot. Both meanings have significance in this tale where deceptions and motives abound and take the reader from the deepest jungles of Bolivia to the bowels of Red-Eye Swamp in South Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin. Assassins, drug dealers, a crooked lawyer, a demolition expert, police and a family of Cajuns populate the fast-moving plot that covers thirteen days (by chapter) in Tanner's efforts to save his life. A computer system salesman, he has no formal training to deal with his enemies at their level, and must rely on his quick thinking, his logistical skills and the advice of a private investigator to guide him through the uncharted waters where criminals reign.