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Directive: Miami
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $21.99
Publisher: Christopher Reynolds Books
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 386
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Available in English and Spanish
Disponible en inglés y español
Directive: Miami
Miami is beautiful. Miami is owned. Someone rewrote who owns it.
Javier Ortega was not powerful. He was not famous. He was a compliance analyst inside one of Miami's most respected real estate development firms - careful, ordinary, and easy to overlook.
Then he found the records.
Properties that had changed hands without leaving a clean trail. Shell companies that appeared, disappeared, and reappeared under different names. Ownership histories rewritten so neatly that no one asking ordinary questions would ever know what had been erased.
Before Ortega can decide what to do with what he has found, he is beaten to death near the marina, and his murder is made to look like a robbery.
That is when a Directive is issued.
Six people who officially do not exist are sent to Miami. They do not make arrests. They do not hold press conferences. Their job is to uncover what has been buried, expose the machinery behind it, and place the truth in the hands of someone who can act.
Jack Weaver leads the team. Ty Hawkins handles the ground. Emily Chen cuts into the systems no one wants opened. Tommaso Rossi follows the money. Michael Walker reads the people. Sarah Bennett builds the operation that keeps them alive long enough to finish the job.
What they find is bigger than one murder, bigger than one development firm, and far more dangerous than one corrupted record. Miami's wealth has been hidden behind layers of ownership, influence, and respectability - and the people who built the machine will kill to keep it intact.
But the deeper the team goes, the more one truth becomes impossible to ignore:
The most dangerous power is not the one that breaks the rules.
It is the one you can no longer see.
Directive: Miami is the first novel in The Directive Novels, a thriller series about covert accountability, buried corruption, and the cost of exposing power that was never meant to be touched.
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