RICHARD ZAPPA
CRIME | THRILLER | MYSTERY AUTHOR
Meet the Author
Richard Zappa is a trial lawyer turned novelist. A graduate of the Washington College of Law of the American University in Washington, DC, he was an editor of the Law Review and Dean’s Fellow to Adjunct Professor of Law and former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Arthur Goldberg. During the course of a distinguished career as a top personal injury and medical malpractice lawyer, he has litigated and tried numerous cases in state and federal courts, many of which resulted in multimillion-dollar recoveries for his clients.
He retired in 2018 to write novels full time. A black-belt martial artist and self-taught pianist, he writes from his homes in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
The fentanyl crisis just got a lot worse. Drug lord Diego “El Leon” Garcia, head of the infamous Chiapas Cartel, has begun trafficking “white gold,” a new fentanyl-laced pill that has quadrupled overdose deaths in Nevada and California. DEA special agent Antonio Vega has a plan to capture Garcia and shut down his criminal enterprise before his designer drug goes nationwide and kills hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Elena Sanchez, Garcia’s wife, incarcerated for drug trafficking and the attempted murder of a cop, escapes from a Louisiana prison and begins a perilous journey through Mexico to her husband, who is hiding away in his heavily guarded secret mountain estate. Former New Orleans homicide detective Jo Crowder agrees to help Sanchez evade the Mexican authorities, rival cartels, and street gangs, who pursue the wife of El Leon with evil intentions every step of the way.
The Lion Hunt is a story about a culture of violence, crime, and corruption, and two women, opposites in so many ways, who are drawn together with a common purpose—survival.
ISBN PAPERBACK: 978-1-922329-63-9
PUBLICATION DATE: MAY 17, 2024
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Heartland Insurance, the brainchild of multimillionaire Jared Finch, has a simple business model—buy people’s life insurance policies and collect the proceeds when they die. New Orleans homicide detective Jo Crowder and FBI Special Agent Alex Hill suspect there is a sinister relationship between Finch’s company and a research laboratory that is testing an experimental serum on animals. Hill and Crowder team up to investigate why so many people connected to Finch and his company are dying. But are they willing to break the law and risk their lives to uncover the horrifying truth?
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