THE DEADLY
PLASTIC SURGEON
He changed the face of a dangerous man. Then he had to kill him.
A new face buys you nothing
if the wrong man wants it back.
Dr. Kai Singer didn't go looking for trouble. Trouble walked into his Beverly Hills office and asked for a new jawline.
Kai is the best plastic surgeon on Rodeo Drive — and the last man alive who knows what a Mexican cartel boss looks like before the cameras catch up. Once a Navy SEAL, he built a quiet, respectable life with a scalpel instead of a sidearm. Then Carlito Vega, the brutal head of the Cartel Del Golfo, sat down in his chair and asked him to make him unrecognizable.
Kai does the job. Carlito gets his new face. And then he decides the surgeon who built it has to disappear — along with the only evidence of who Carlito Vega used to be.
What the cartel doesn't know is that the soft-spoken doctor they sent killers after still remembers exactly how to use the other skills he learned in the service. With his father, fellow SEAL and surgeon Tony Singer, at his side, Kai has to stay alive long enough to stop being hunted — and start hunting back.
Three names in the file.
Click a card to declassify. Everyone in this book is hiding something — their face, their past, or both.
A reconstructive surgeon with the steadiest hands in Beverly Hills — and a combat record buried deep enough that even his own clients never suspect it. The cartel calls him "the titty doctor." That's their first mistake.
Sixty years old, scarred, and the most feared man in the CDG. He pays for a new face to disappear from the DEA's watchlist — then realizes the only loose end is the man who gave it to him.
One of the world's most respected microsurgeons, and the reason Kai survived basic training before he ever picked up a scalpel. When the cartel comes for his son, the doctor in him takes a back seat.
Chapter One
Inside one of his many airplane hangars in Mexico — this one a two-thousand-square-foot torture chamber — Carlito Vega, the sixty-year-old, scarred, ugly leader of the Cartel Del Golfo, the oldest criminal organization in Mexico, walked around his top assassin, laying naked and spread eagle, arms and legs tied to four eye hooks cemented into the blood-stained floor.
The cartel leader circled slowly, swinging his fifty-thousand-dollar custom golf club back and forth at his side. A solid gold seven iron, ground to a razor's edge. Carlito peered down at the man on the floor and decided which part he would take.
Three thousand miles away, on Rodeo Drive, a surgeon who had once done very different work with his hands was about to meet the man who would end his quiet life — and find out exactly how quiet it had never really been.
The face was never the point.
Kai Singer thought surviving Carlito Vega meant it was over. Book Two of the series is in production — get on the list and be the first to know the title, the cover, and the release date.
Frank Bigott
— Dedication, The Deadly Plastic Surgeon