Black & Co. Book One

In BLACK & CO.-BOOK-ONE, a failed law student and struggling private investigator finds himself caught in a deadly web of corporate greed and organized crime. Here is a book description based on the novel's plot and themes:To the world, they are invisible. To him, the are a mission.John Black was supposed to be a lawyer. Instead, he's a twenty-seven-year-old private investigator living in a water-stained attic in Boyle Heights, still haunted by the federal building bombing that killed his mother. He spends his days tracking the "e;invisible"e; people—those the city of Los Angeles would rather forget.When John is hired to find Luz Marina Reyes, a young immigrant phlebotomist who vanished without a trace, he expects a routine missing persons case. Instead, he wakes up bound in the back of a refrigerated van, the smell of bleach and old blood filling his nostrils. He soon realizes he isn't just a kidnap victim; he's a "e;subject"e; being prepared for a terrifying organ-harvesting ring run by the shadowy Seraphim Health Partners .Barely escaping with his life, John teams up with his pragmatic landlord and actuarial analyst, Sofia Castellano. Together, they begin to dismantle a machine designed to treat human beings as commodities . From the gritty car washes of Vermont Avenue to the sterile mansions of Bel Air, John must use his "e;issue spotting"e; legal instincts to survive a hunt by a ruthless criminal network.In a city that thrives on anonymity, John Black is about to make the invisible visible—or die trying.