Dark Angel

＂It’s relentless from start to finish. Badal just gets better and better.＂
-David Morrell, New York Times Bestselling Author

In ＂Dark Angel,＂ the second in the Lassiter/Martinez Case Files series, Detectives Barbara Lassiter and Susan Martinez pick up where they left off in ＂Borderline.＂ Assigned to a murder case, they discover that their suspect is much more than a one-off killer. In fact, the murderer appears to be a vigilante hell-bent on taking revenge against career criminals who the criminal justice system has failed to punish.

But Lassiter and Martinez are soon caught up in the middle of an FBI investigation of a monstrous home invasion gang that has murdered dozens of innocent victims across the United States. When they discover a link between their vigilante killer and the home invasion crew, they come into conflict with powerful men in the FBI who are motivated more by career self-preservation than by bringing justice to innocent victims.

Award-Winning and best-selling author Joseph Badal presents another intricate, tension-filled mystery that puts readers on the edge of their seats from the first page to the last, and will have them demanding more Lassiter/Martinez stories.

Prior to a long finance career, including a 16-year stint as a senior executive and board member of a NYSE-listed company, Joseph Badal served for six years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army in critical, highly classified positions in the U.S. and overseas, including tours of duty in Greece and Vietnam, and earned numerous military decorations. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in business and graduated from the De-fense Language Institute, West Coast and from Stanford University Law School’s Director Col-lege. Joe now serves on the boards of several companies. He is the author of eleven published suspense novels and a two-time winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize for Best Fiction Book of the Year (＂Ultimate Betrayal＂ in 2014 and ＂The Mo-tive＂ in 2016). The Military Writers Society of America awarded Joe its Gold Medal in 2016 for ＂Death Ship,＂ its Silver Medal in 2016 for ＂Terror Cell,＂ and its Silver Medal in 2015 for ＂Evil Deeds.＂ His ＂The Lone Wolf Agenda＂ was named the top Mystery/Thriller novel in the 2013 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards competition. Joe also writes a monthly blog titled Everyday Heroes, and has written short stories pub-lished in the ＂Uncommon Assassins,＂ ＂Someone Wicked,＂ and ＂Insidious Assassins＂ antholo-gies. ＂Dark Angel,＂ Joe’s 11th novel and the second in his Lassiter/Martinez Case Files series, will be released on January 24, 2017. In addition to authoring novels and short stories, Joe has written dozens of articles that have been published in various business and trade journals and is a frequent speaker at business, civic, and writers’ events.