On May 11, 2023, my second book, Shadow Investigation, was published. A crime/thriller, the story takes place in 1987 and focuses on DEA Special Agent Sam Dahl who is assigned to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Sam is comfortable, perhaps even a little bored, with his job seizing drug money from couriers passing through the daily hubbub of the LAX airport. When a friend begs Sam to find out what happened to her parents who disappeared while boating in the Gulf of Mexico, he politely declines. Although Sam possesses well-honed instincts and a keen eye for trouble, he knows nothing about missing person cases, and he has no legal authority to conduct that kind of work while punching the DEA’s time clock.
Eventually, Sam agrees to help and under the guise of taking a long overdue “vacation,” he jumps on a flight to the Sunshine State. It’s not long before his real job and the personal favor to his friend meld into a single investigation. But Sam better be careful, or he could lose his livelihood and his life.
Christopher Amato 