Acceptable Sacrifice

Short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authorsA pair of federal agents from either side of the USMexico border target a cartel kingpinThey call him ';Cuchillo,'the Knife.

Not because he kills with a bladehe has plenty of men to do that kind of work for himbut because his mind is so sharp.

As Mexico's government wages war on the drug cartels, it takes brains to survive, and Cuchillo has not just survivedhe has prospered.

But when Cuchillo begins to cut too deeply, the federal police of both the United States and Mexico step in to dull his blade.P.

Z. Evans and Alejo Daz know the Hermosillo cartel is planning an attack on a tourist bus in Sonora, and they know they will have to capture or kill Cuchillo to stop it.

The cartel leader has one weakness: rare, old books.

To destroy the intellectual's evil empire, this unlikely pair of international police will have to appeal to his inner bibliophile.