When a British tourist is found dead in a locked room at Gibraltar’s historic Bristol Hotel, Detective Inspector Daniel Ferris expects a routine coroner’s inquiry. But Mara Vega—head archivist at the Garrison Library—sees what the police missed: a fresh, microscopic mark stamped into the victim's wrist—an inverted dagger over a three-pointed crown.
It is the ancient execution mark of the Veiled Hand, an order of guardians bound by the Covenant of the Three Shores—a secret 14th-century treaty signed between powerful mercantile houses in Gibraltar, Spain, and Morocco to maintain an untraceable transit corridor across the Strait.
When a second marked body surfaces across the bay in Algeciras, Mara and Ferris are drawn into a deadly conspiracy that spans three countries. The centuries-old Covenant has been hijacked by a rogue consortium using the ancient smuggling routes to launder billions across European borders.
To protect the network, the syndicate activates the Retaliation Clause—a ruthless protocol designed to erase any whistle-blower and their entire bloodline. Framed for treason and hunted by lethal tactical operatives, Mara and Ferris must flee across the storm-churned waters of the Strait to the labyrinthine Medina of Tangier, racing to assemble the three missing pieces of the master ledger before the executioner claims the final Custodian.
From subterranean WWII tunnels carved deep inside the Rock of Gibraltar to the shadowed alleys of North Africa, Blood Across The Straits is an edge-of-your-seat historical conspiracy thriller packed with relentless action, ancient intrigue, and high-stakes geopolitical drama.
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