Illicit Encounters

Following the kidnapping of a fellow police officer, Detective Geneviève Benoit and her partner Detective Nicolas Berger uncover a new distribution ring of drugs on the French Mediterranean coast. Members of a Maghrebis gang are using luxury yachts to bring their drugs ashore. On one yacht, the detectives find the body of Yvette Segal, movie star turned philanthropist, murdered along with €1,000,000 in Fentanyl.In the middle of the chaos, Geneviève learns a high-profile suspect, Nazim Aziz has been seen in Marseille. The French-Algerian drug smuggler has placed a price on Geneviève, revenge for his cousin's death. In the chaos of tracking Aziz down, she is presented with clues to the abducted officer by Gregory Arsenault, a former French Foreign Legionnaire, and who promises the detective with help finding his former drug-smuggling partner Nazim Aziz.In the end, Geneviève puts herself and career at risk by accepting Arsenault's offer, and confront Nazim Aziz, by agreeing to protect the identity of Arsenault's police informant. However things don't go as planned, and Nazim's attempted escape from the meeting arranged by Arsenault, leads Genevieve to make a choice which could jeopardize her career. Anthony is a first generation American and native Californian, the son of Scottish immigrants. His father Peter was born in Glasgow and his mother Catherine was born in Edinburgh. Anthony's fraternal grandparents, Michael and Margaret were both born in Ireland.Anthony is married to his high school sweetheart, Mary, and has been blessed with two daughters, Rebekah and Jennifer.A product of a mixed education (part parochial and part public schools), he developed a thirst for reading early in his childhood, and took to writing fiction as an escape from his work as an Instructional Systems Designer.When not working on improving his writing, Anthony can be found on the local golf course, honing his game invented by his ancestors. French Detective Genevieve Benoit and her partner Detective (Captain) Claude Lemieux work to stem the tide of illicit drug trafficking that flows through Marseille. Along the way, they encounter an Algerian crime lord who is manipulating on activities in the city, attempting to thwart their every attempt to bring an end to the drug problem.