Ruthless

By Chris Ryan

Book #3 in the Special Forces Cadets series

Cadets infiltrate Rio's dangerous cartels, risking everything to dismantle a drug empire.

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224 pages

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In the perilous streets of Rio, cadets must infiltrate ruthless cartels by befriending street kids entangled in crime. As they delve deeper into the drug lords' empire, danger looms at every turn. Will they survive the lion's den, or become prey to the merciless cartel chiefs? The stakes are high, and the cadets' mission could change everything from Brazil to the UK. Can they outsmart the most dangerous criminals and emerge unscathed, or will their courage lead them to an untimely end?

From the publisher

The ghettos of Brazil are crawling with street kids. They have nothing, and are forced into lives of crime in order to get enough to eat. Their life expectancies are short, not least because the Brazilian authorities allow paramilitaries to shoot them like rats. But it’s with the street kids of Rio de Janeiro that the cadets must become embedded. Some of these kids have been recruited by the cartels. The cartels are causing untold misery, both in Brazil and on the streets of the UK. The cadets must befriend the cartel kids in the hope that they will lead them into the heart of the drug lords’ empire. But when you head into the lion’s den, you must expect to be bitten. The cartel chiefs are the most ruthless people in the world, and they do not take kindly to the infiltration of their secret, violent world . . .

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