The Island: The Vanished

The Cowboy Gangster/The Base Crossover Series, Book 1

By: CJ Bishop, H.M. Wolfe

Narrated by: Charles Hall

The gangsters: Clint, Cochise, and the men return home from Canada, looking forward to some much-needed rest and relaxation. But they soon discover there is no rest for the weary—as they are immediately faced with another crisis—missing loved ones that seemed to have vanished into thin air. With no leads and no idea if their missing family and friends are dead or alive, the gangsters are desperate to dig up a single clue—anything to set them in the right direction.

As the gangsters are about to lose hope, an unexpected lead takes them to a reluctant witness. With a forced confession, they are still left with little to go on, until two strangers—in search of their own lost loved ones—show up at their front gate with just enough information to suggest they are hunting the same monsters.

The Base: After an unexpected and violent encounter with his arch-enemy Alexander Kane, Ardan MacNamara, the founder of The Base sanctuary for child prostitution victims, finally closes the door on his dark past. His honorary adoptive father, Fabian Bloom, who also suffered horrific physical, sexual, and mental abuse at Kane's hands, no longer looks over his shoulder, enjoying his new life to the fullest.

But then, Ardan's three sons and their friends are kidnapped in broad daylight, only a few hundred yards from The Base, and the two mens' world collapses. Numerous search parties are organized and no stone is left unturned, but the kids are nowhere to be found. The evil force behind the kidnapping seems to be greater and more dangerous than anything Ardan and Fabian have fought against in the past.

Desperate situations require desperate measures and, for the first time, the two men search for help outside their circle of traditional allies—and find it in an unlikely source.

Trigger warning: Sexual abuse, child sex trafficking, psychological and emotional abuse, drug abuse, and violence.

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