SHOOT FIRST. ASK QUESTIONS LATER. "Seriously, Angel? You'd trust your life to a woman on a surfboard?" "More than I would to a man in a three-piece suit, Jake." Still basking in the glow of a red carpet appearance at the Hollywood premiere of Avenging Angel, the movie supposedly Inspired by Actual Events, Angel Fortune is summoned by LAPD to the scene of a brutal murder. Weeks later, Angel is summoned by LAPD to attend a second crime scene even more grisly and senseless than the first. But how are these murders connected to Angel Fortune, ex-LAPD and LA's most notorious and deadly Private Eye? Just when Angel thinks her former colleagues are being sadistically vengeful, she's approached by a woman on a surfboard in the swell off Topanga Beach. The woman almost knocks Angel off her own board by confessing to being an undercover operative of the Peoples Republic of China, Ministry of State Security. Before Angel can clear the seawater from her lungs, the woman describes a world where Silicon Valley tech-execs buy sex on the company credit card, foreign billionaires launder money through Native American casinos, buy-up vast tracts of American real estate, and invest offshore private equity in high-tech Silicon Valley startups. And the woman on the surfboard needs Angel's help. Against the advice of her partner in Avenging Angel Investigations, Rosie Rosado, and her on-again-off-again lover LAPD Detective Jake Koslowski, Angel agrees to join an undercover operation to expose the money launderers and a human sex-trafficking network feeding off the greed and stretching from the Port of Los Angeles to Beijing. In an operation that includes three levels of US Federal law enforcement, who can Angel trust? With so many billions at stake, turns out Angel can trust no one. If you love Janet Evanovich, Stephanie Plum, and fast-paced suspense thrillers featuring shoot first, ask questions later female heroines, you'll love Ian Patterson and Angel Fortune. With plenty of twists and turns, ANGEL of MERCY is BOOK II in a new suspense thriller series featuring former LAPD Detective turned Private Investigator, Angel Fortune. Guaranteed to keep you reading long past midnight! Buy the book today and enjoy these other page-turning Ian Patterson suspense thrillers available now on Amazon.com: AVENGING ANGEL(Angel Fortune, Book I), THE CHATTERBOX KILLER (Fortune & Fernandez Serial Killer Thriller, Book I), THE CALL GIRL KILLER (Fortune & Fernandez Serial Killer Thriller, Book II), and THE GIRL IN THE GLASS TOWER. For updates and Free Books, follow Ian Patterson at www.amazon.com/author/ianpatterson