The Secret History

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A new thriller by the acclaimed short story writer R. H. Emmers.

What It’s About

A fixer named Dahl is hired to rescue a Cartel boss’s niece from Border Patrol custody. Meanwhile, a spy agency assigns an operative to unravel the conspiracy behind the torture and murder of a U.S. drug agent in Mexico forty years ago. Dahl secures the niece, but they’re ambushed by Dahl’s former partner in a Latin America assassination program, one of its victims, unbeknownst to Dahl, bearing the secret of the drug agent’s death. In the explosive climax, with Trump dead, DeSantis headed for the nomination and a militia uprising in the offing, Dahl learns the truth and waits with a rifle on a hillside at the final 2024 rally.

The Author of The Secret History

R. H. Emmers was a newspaper writer and editor for many years. Later, he worked as a private investigator and as a fraud investigator for a major insurance company.

As a journalist he wrote about everything from police corruption to political shenanigans. As a private investigator and later as an investigator for an insurance company that sold a large number of high-end disability policies he concentrated on fraudulent claims. Some of the claims were incredibly complicated and difficult to unravel.

He is the author of numerous short stories and a novella. You can find a collection of some of them for sale on Amazon. Look for Lynerkim’s Dance and Other Stories.

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