Make Them Sorry

June 4, 2018
Hawken’s kick-ass third Camaro Espinoza thriller (after 2017’s Walk Away) finds the hard-drinking, motorcycle-riding, mixed marital arts enthusiast finally achieving some semblance of existential peace in Miami, Fla., where she runs a charter fishing business. But when a woman approaches her asking for help dealing with a stalker, Camaro reluctantly agrees to teach her self-defense skills, only to become entangled with killers from a Colombian paramilitary drug cartel involved in money laundering and drug smuggling. Complicating matters is Ignacio Montellano, a Miami homicide detective, whose friendship with the prickly Camaro may not only jeopardize his career but also their lives. Tightly plotted if a bit predictable in places, the action-packed narrative derives its real power from the complex character of Camaro, whose toughness and bad attitude make Jack Reacher look like a choir boy. Fans of Zoë Sharp’s Charlie Fox will love Camaro, especially her memorable one-liners: “I’ve never killed anyone who didn’t need to be dead.” Agent: Oli Munson, A.M. Heath (U.K.).

July 1, 2018
Miami accountant Faith Glazer is sure she's being stalked. She's seen him outside her office, and she senses that he has even been in her apartment. So, she goes to one of the city's fighting gyms to learn how to defend herself. But she soon decides that she needs a personal instructor and approaches the most formidable woman in the gym, Camaro Espinosa (Walk Away, 2017). Reluctantly, Camaro agrees to train her. She also tells Faith to buy a gun. Reluctantly, Faith does so, and when the stalker invades her home and brutally assaults her, Faith shoots him six times. Soon after, Camaro's home is invaded by two men with assault rifles. Camaro kills them both. The three dead men are found to be Armenian thugs, and Hawken is off to the races in a violent, twisty story of Colombian coca lords, bent Miami bankers, and money laundering. Camaro is a fascinating character, adding several nice variations on the typical genre tough guy. She's a decorated veteran of America's various Middle Eastern military adventures who keeps even potential friends at a distance, explaining that she has an anger problem. Fans of head-banging thrillers will love Camaro.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

March 1, 2018

In the third thriller starring Camaro Espinoza (called the female Jack Reacher), accountant Faith Glazer wants loner-on-purpose Camaro to teach her self-defense so that she can waylay a stalker. Given the stalker's clearly deadly intentions, Camaro reluctantly cooperates with Det. Ignacio Montellano of Miami PD homicide. With a 35,000-copy first printing.

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