Sindicato & Co.: A Novel

The Expat paradise that is Manila turns into Expat inferno in
this thriller that rival today’s headlines.

David Elliot, an American expat in Manila, gets a new assignment from his multinational consulting firm. To deliver to a client a very sensitive message that’s cached on his phone. Angela Avellana, a Miss Universe finalist turned prostitute turned master thief, lands the motherlode of her thieving career. An American she picks up in a bar. When the American goes missing, Francesca Godinez, the daughter of a slain journalist who was the latest victim in the infamous extra-judicial killings, discovers the truth about the War on Drugs. And the innumerable number of the dead and the disappeared of which the American could soon be added to. Before the missing American becomes an international incident, General Luis Alberto, the head of the Philippine National Police and the brains behind Operation- Tokhang, needs to locate him. And as the decorated general adds yet another name to his dreaded kill list, he will have to decide whether to keep the American alive.