Cross Talk

Derek Price serves three powerful task masters, some friends, some foes, some both. When one becomes his arch-nemesis, who inserts an excruciating microchip in his brain, that can be triggered remotely, he is in a fight for his life. He experienced one sample of what the chip can do, and he knows if it happened again, it would either kill him or he’d kill himself. At the same time, he can’t let any of his handlers down. He can’t let any of his handlers down.
Derek work for a telecom company who won a contract to supply a digital l network to the Mexican Federal Government. The CIA seizes the opportunity and the technology to infiltrate and uncover the cartel leadership while the Drug Tsars, aided by Cuba and a couple of veteran cold warriors, secretly turn the tables - and turn the network into an effective counter-espionage tool. With the chip in his head, he is forced to keep the Tsar's secrets, do their bidding and betray all those around him. The secret founder and the leader of La Cofradia, the most bloodthirsty cartel yet to emerge, gains momentum and threatens to take over - everything. Pro-American officials are framed and imprisoned, and the CIA is duped into implementing a plot to assassinate its own hand-picked presidential candidate. Ultimately Price finds a way to protect himself and joins forces with others victimized by the Tsars. Now he is in a race to the finish line. Who wins, who loses and at what cost?

Mr. Gilbert has traveled extensively throughout Latin America and has written numerous works in the areas of international business, high tech and fiction. He holds an MA in International Management Studies and a BA in Psychology.