The Hidden Light of Mexico City

Caught between Mexico's class system and the country's spiraling drug war, an attorney and a maid fight for their lives and each other in a political thriller torn from today's headlines. By the author of the explosive Emilia Cruz mystery series set in Acapulco.
 
A CHANCE MEETING FOR A MAN
Mexico City attorney Eddo Cortez Castillo's unexpected relationship with housemaid Luz de Maria Alba Mora becomes a dangerous vulnerability when he investigates links between the Minister for Public Security and Mexico's most elusive drug cartel leader. But what Eddo doesn't know is that Luz is trapped at the bottom of Mexico's social ladder, where broken dreams and family poverty have brought her to the breaking point.
 
FOLLOWING A BLOOD MONEY TRAIL OF CARTELS AND CORRUPTION
As presidential elections near, Eddo's investigation will uncover a political double-cross fueled by blood money and drug cartels. With the help of a secret police network, he'll follow the trail as it twists and turns through a maze of smuggling and money laundering right up to the Mexican border with the United States. There he'll find the beating heart of Mexico's drug culture, where violence buys loyalty, votes are for sale, the odds are against survival, and only a woman whose name means Light of Mary can guide him out.
 
AND A WOMAN WHO FACES THE FIGHT OF HER LIFE
Luz cannot help Eddo, however, until she finds the courage to confront the social structure she has lived with for so long in Mexico City and dispel the supposed inequality in their relationship. She'll fight a parallel battle of suspense and survival as a soldier in the war being waged in the kitchens of the elite of Mexico City; a silent class war with its own impact on the country. Immigration to the United States may be her best chance for a real life as an artist, but it comes with a higher price than she may be able to pay.
 
Carmen Amato takes the classic political thriller and throws it into the middle of Mexico's drug war. The result is a tough and riveting tale that rings with authenticity. See why amazon reviewers say "Can't wait to read the next of Amato's novels!
 
He hunts cartels and corruption in the dark. She's THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF MEXICO CITY.