Book cover for Monkey Wrench by John Thompson

Monkey Wrench

2021 Released
306 Pages
5-7 Hours
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Dusty Desert PressISBN 9781732428133
A gritty blue-collar New Mexico crime thriller of buried mob money, broken loyalties, and a man who risks everything to reclaim his life.

Monkey Wrench is a hard-driving rural noir thriller set against the back roads and small towns of New Mexico, where the U.S. Marshals Witness Security Program, the Dixie Mafia, and a ruthless Mexican cartel collide over a missing fortune.

Some Ghosts don't stay buried.

George Olsen has spent years living a lie.

Protected by the U.S. Marshals Witness Security Program after surviving a deadly mob money embezzlement scheme, George has sacrificed everything-his name, his career, the woman he loved, and the life he once called his own.

WITSEC has one sacred rule:

Never look back.

When George learns the woman he once loved has been marked for death, he breaks WITSEC's most sacred rule and returns to New Mexico-knowing the Dixie Mafia is waiting for him.

It's a decision that could cost him his life.

Buried somewhere in Torrance County is over a million dollars in stolen mob cash-the same fortune George and his closest friend uncovered years earlier. The Dixie Mafia wants it back. A ruthless Mexican cartel believes it's theirs.

And as old enemies close in from every direction, George discovers the past was never buried... it was only waiting for him to come home.

John Thompson

USMC Master Sergeant John Thompson, Ret., is the cofounder and former COO of Lima One. He lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with his wife, Sandy, and has two grown children.

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