In 1982, the independent reporter Dusty Dawes is offered the assignment to investigate the production facilities, the smuggling routes and the organization behind the cocaine reaching the US.

He travels to Colombia, where he has been permitted to watch the production operations in San Agustín and in the Amazon rainforest. What neither he nor his editor-in-chief, understand, is that they are being manipulated for business purposes by Jaime Nava, the powerful Cartagena cartel adviser.

Then Jaime Nava's plans go awry when Dusty on an impulse deviates from the travel route that has been planned for him.

Petty Thieves & Businessmen is the first volume in the thriller trilogy The Beaked Whale Assignment.

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Excerpt: Petty Thieves & Businessmen