Apex Predator Series: Book 3
Publication Date: January 30, 2024
“An excellent reminder that great spies tell great spy stories.”
~ Annie Jacobson, Writer/Producer of Jack Ryan
In a chilling continuation of their Apex Predator novels, Bayard & Holmes compel us into the darkest corners of the Shadow World. A world where billionaires are not subject to governments and assassins, rogue nations, and terrorists are their tools to obtain global dominance. In an explosion of unrelenting action, one man and his team risk everything to protect the Western world.
Former CIA Operations Officer John Viera is doing his best to lead a “normal” life and start a family. Fate has other ideas.
When a Russian ship is mysteriously torpedoed off the coast of Peru, untracked enriched uranium is revealed within its cargo. Protecting his family’s multi-billion dollar business interests, the US president blocks agency investigations into the incident. Top intelligence officials covertly call in John Viera and his unofficial network of former operatives to uncover the new player on the nuclear chessboard. What they discover threatens the annihilation of the West.
From the jungles of the Amazon to the Sea of Japan, John and his network are the only ones who stand between international security and the Caiman of Iquitos.
“Bayard and Holmes’s Apex Predator series is everything I love. Big story, big adventure, big thumbs-up!”
—James Rollins, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Sigma Force series
Authors Bayard & Holmes deliver another installment in the Apex Predator series, this time set in Peru.
The Caiman of Iquitos features former CIA Operations Officer John Viera, who is dealing with the fallout of choosing his career over his marriage. There’s hope for reconciliation, but John gets sent to Peru.
As John and his team investigate a Russian ship that has been torpedoed, they discover untracked enriched uranium in the hold. With the clock ticking, they must unravel the tangled web leading to a new terrorism threat.
One of the series’ impressive qualities is how well the authors articulate the high-octane action. Of special interest is the “truth or fiction” section at the back of the book.
The Caiman of Iquitos delivers an action-packed conspiracy thriller full of twists and turns.
Piper Bayard is an author and a recovering attorney with a college degree or two. She is also a belly dancer and a former hospice volunteer. She has been working daily with her good friend Jay Holmes for the past decade, learning about foreign affairs, espionage history, and field techniques for the purpose of writing fiction and nonfiction. She currently pens espionage nonfiction and international spy thrillers with Jay Holmes, as well as post-apocalyptic fiction of her own.
Jay Holmes is a forty-five-year veteran of field espionage operations with experience spanning from the Cold War fight against the Soviets, the East Germans, and the various terrorist organizations they sponsored to the present Global War on Terror. He is unwilling to admit to much more than that. Piper is the public face of their partnership.
Together, Bayard & Holmes author non-fiction articles and books on espionage and foreign affairs, as well as fictional international spy thrillers. They are also the bestselling authors of The Spy Bride from the Risky Brides Bestsellers Collection and were featured contributors for Social In Worldwide, Inc.
When they aren’t writing or, in Jay’s case, busy with “other work,” Piper and Jay are enjoying time with their families, hiking, exploring back roads of America, talking foreign affairs, laughing at their own rude jokes until the wee hours, and questing for the perfect chocolate cake recipe.
