The novel “FallenLotus Petals” is author Jordon Papanier’s offering to every readersearching for that gritty, sometimes funny, yet always compelling novel wherethe bad guys are beyond vile and the good guys struggle to come out ahead. Inthis page-turner, readers are immediately pulled into a story of deceit, of afrenzied struggle to save lives, and one man’s quest to make peace with hispast. FBI agent Tom Larson is investigating a lost container at the port of LosAngeles. Little does he realize that this case will evolve into one of the mosttraumatic of his career: the exploitation of underage Asian girls, victims ofhuman trafficking in the seedy world of sex slaves. Our protagonist knows toowell the difficulties before him, having once faced the terrible challenge ofapprehending the serial killer of call girls and dealing with his own sister’sdomestic violence. Could he do justice to this case today, years later? Inprose both poetic and hard-hitting, readers are thrust into the action, movingat mach speed through our protagonist’s attempts to save these children fromalmost certain tragedy, his challenge to find the source of a deadly designerdrug, and yet another case in which he must expose the culprits advancing a newtechnology that can produce an undetectable plastic gun. And through thisaction and danger, what is happening with his love life? With a creative stroke,the author illustrates time and place, and characters of sufficient complexityto keep the reader guessing. Papanier pushes this level of tension until thefinal page.
