Assassin and a fresh lead greet agent in “Deep Waters of Destiny”

Author’s note: This excerpt introduces Palmer, a young female DEA undercover agent in Odesa, Ukraine, attempting to infiltrate a Russian drug cartel.  Her job is to disrupt the new formation of the largest drug cartel in the world combining the Italian/Russian and Colombian/Venezuelan cartels. She eventually finds herself planted by the DEA on the 300-foot mega-yacht owned by the head of the Italian mafia. The ship sails from Odesa to Aruba to meet the first shipment of drugs, guided by the other main character, Gunner, the captain of the yacht.

Palmer jumped at the sound of a loud crash from the kitchen close to her table in an open-air café. In the night air, she took a sip of wine to calm her nerves and watched Viktor Petrov, her contact, walk away from their meeting….