Actions of Deceit

Actions of Deceit is the second book in the continuing spy series of Gary Baldocchi’s 2019 IAN Award-winning first novel, Actions of Violence. CIA Counterterrorist officer Jack Connor continues to battle the Jihad 7-terrorist as a deep undercover DEA Special Agent. SEAL Team Six is sent on a secret mission to Lebanon to identify the Engineer, the Jihad 7-terrorist who is key to the next U.S. terrorist attack. Connor’s undercover role as the DEA agent also pits him against the ruthless heroin drug lord General Sun, who’s drug trade has only one outcome…death!

Connor develops an informant that unravels the conspiracy, that expands to the Hawaii and the Philippines. CIA Director Lynn Bancroft, can only trust a handful of CIA operatives to thwart this conspiracy. She is forced to elicit the help from an unwitting individual… Barrett Steel, San Mateo Deputy District Attorney, Jack’s wife. Steel overcomes her hatred for the CIA and now joins forces with Jack to stop this diabolical threat and conspiracy, but insiders are determined to eliminate her.

A rogue CIA assassin surfaces and is forced to join a group of ex-military mercenaries, that complicates matters even worse. To add to the fray, ex Cuban assassins are hired by the Bogotá Cartel to cause havoc inside the US. government. Bancroft and her secret team of operatives must prevail to stop the threat.

Gary has served the U.S. government for 29 years as a Marine Officer, as an NCIS and DEA Special Agent. NCIS and DEA assignments gave him experience in counterespionage and in undercover drug operations, which translates into a thrilling novel series.