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Silver Lead and Dead takes you on a journey into the world of the ‘Narco’. Drug trafficking, politics, and ambitious characters fight to control Mexico as it slowly slips into a ‘Narco state’. A high tech group of mercenaries led by an ex-CIA agent is commissioned by secret players in the Mexican government to destroy one of the largest drug cartels. This strategy is designed to create a vacuum where the government can manage the remaining crime syndicates. Will it work or implode?
Evan Hernandez stumbles into the operation and is immediately recruited by the group's leader, Nathan Rock. Evan and Nathan have a shaky at best past that stretches back to the killing of Pablo Escobar decades earlier in Columbia. Evan is still haunted by his families’ assassination during that era.
Reluctantly Evan is lured back into the underworld of undercover work and the ‘Narco. Nathan the leader of Dark Cloud uses two ghosts from Evan’s past to draw him in. One: an undercover operation involving a Soviet vintage sub sale to the Cartels; a copycat mission that Evan had managed decades earlier. And two: the man who killed his family.
Reviewed by Kathryn Bennett for Readers' Favorite
Silver Lead and Dead by James Garmisch introduces us to an ex-CIA agent named Evan. At this point in his life, he feels that he has nothing left to lose. It is because of his past actions and the lies he told that his career is in shambles and, worse, his family is dead. It is at this point that he finds a chance to redeem himself as he goes to Juarez in order to pay the ransom for a family friend. While in Mexico, he gets in the way of a mission being done by a covert paramilitary group (not on purpose) and Evan is forced to make some choices. He could help infiltrate the cartels, stepping back into the game that caused him to lose his family and everything else. Or he could walk away and get lost in the grip of vengeance.
The first thing that comes to mind when you read this book is action! Set against the backdrop of hot, sweaty and dirty Mexico, this book is truly a dive into the chaotic and seedy nature of covert operations and dealing with drug cartels. This book is very well written and has such a fantastic way of describing the action and everything going on around it. Evan is a very well fleshed out character, but he isn't a perfect hero. He has flaws and he does not really make any effort to hide them; and that is one thing I really enjoyed about him, his humanity. If you enjoy really well written books with fantastic story lines, this is one for you. I enjoyed every moment.
