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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Miriam Ferraresi's The Guardian Angel: The Recruit, Jay is captured after surviving an assault on a cartel compound near Caracas. He is moved through criminal networks until Tony, leader of a Colombian cartel in Los Angeles, purchases him from Yakuza intermediaries and brings him to Santa Monica. While recovering, Jay enters Tony’s organization and begins directing cocaine distribution across the city. In the same city, Pete, Jay’s childhood friend believed dead after the attack, lives under the identity Mark Davis while working as a cartel chemist. Their reunion pulls both men back toward the betrayal that destroyed their former cartel. Meanwhile, Rita, the sister of Sinaloa leader Julian and the strategist who has long guided cartel decisions from behind the scenes, steps into the leadership as her authority begins reshaping the organization and altering the balance of power across the criminal world.
I just love a great crime thriller, and Miriam Ferraresi's The Guardian Angel ticks all the right boxes. There is much suspense all over the globe, rampaging through forests and city streets alike. Jay is an excellent bad-boy anti-hero. He is loyal to those who prove loyal to him, and has a soft side to his rock-hard, fierce determination. The depiction of Rita as both brains and brawn in a male-dominated underworld is absolutely brilliant. Her leadership is decisive, and we even see her in Culiacán interrupting a torture session, all while moving the chess pieces in tandem. There's romance in the works, and with the restrained hand of a skilled writer, Jay and Rita's connection slowly develops through their positions inside rival criminal networks. Who knew that a negotiation over a cocaine transport route could turn into a heartfelt conversation on personal history? Well written and with near cinematic landscaping, from chandelier-filled ballrooms to quiet lakeside cottages, readers who enjoy cartel crime fiction with buckets of thrills will be delighted. Very highly recommended.
