Darkness in Partido

A stunning debut novel by author Mathias Korzan, an action-filled and eye-opening thriller scheduled for release this spring by Llumina Press, explores the aftermath of the disgrace of Edward Cunningham-once a powerful self-made billionaire publishing tycoon and presidential hopeful, is now a disgraced, paranoid recluse living atop the Waldorf-Astoria. Cunningham's son Peter has mysteriously disappeared, and the father summons a former protégé to search for the missing youth. Devon Barton, recently divorced, nearly bankrupt after squandering a seven-figure bonus, and grossly underemployed in Northern Virginia, meets Cunningham, his one-time mentor, in New York City and, despite his best judgment, agrees to look into the boy's sudden disappearance. The trail moves swiftly from a deadly blizzard pounding the Great Plains, to a strange late-night turn of events at an obscure Catholic college high in California's rugged Los Padres Mountains. When dark secrets of the past are finally revealed in a sweltering jungle eleven thousand miles from home, old scores are settled violently and the search becomes a frantic race against time. Fighting for his life as the novel explodes, both Peter and the reader come to understand that after humiliation, comes rage.