Title: Flesh Cartel #11: Permanent Record
Series: The Flesh Cartel Season 4:
Author: Rachel Haimowitz & Heidi Belleau
Genre: BDSM/Incest/Human Trafficking/Crime
Length: Short Story/Serial (74 pages)
Publisher: Riptide Publishing (November 4th,2013)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥4Hearts
Blurb: Mat and Douglas’s time as Nikolai’s wards is finally drawing to a close. Though torn apart by Nikolai’s machinations, their fates are still inextricably entwined: they’ve been sold to the same cruel master, and are united in their desire to go home. But “home” means two different things to the brothers: for Mat, their little bungalow in Nevada, and for Douglas, a swift return to Nikolai and Roger, the only people he believes still love him. But first, they must survive their new master. Smythe Hall is a twisted island paradise where Americans affect British accents and slave boys dress up as slave girls, all at the whims of the rich and megalomaniacal Allen Smythe-Kennedy.
Meanwhile, FBI Special Agent Nate Johnson can’t let the case of the missing brothers lie. He knows it’s a waste of resources to chase ghosts down a cold trail, but after admiring Mathias “Stonewall” Carmichael ringside and at countless after parties where he was too shy to say hello, he’s determined to solve the mystery and bring Mat and his little brother home.
Product Link: http://www.riptidepublishing.com/titles/flesh-cartel-11-permanent-record
Reviewer: GiGi
Review: For me, this was a very disturbing segment of a serial, I have not followed before. Human trafficking is anything but sexy, and when there is this much violence and dubious consent, implied forced rape of one brother by another, and not true D/s relationships but more brainwashing and submission without safewords, it makes it difficult for me to read.
We go back and forth between the investigator’s POV, the brothers’ POV, and the captors’ POV. It’s a gritty, down and dirty crime read. This is not a romance, that I could determine. But I have not read any of the previous installments in this series. It seems there is a connection that FBI agent Nate Johnson develops mentally anyhow with his missing victims, and I can imagine it develops along the way. Too violent for my tastes, but if that kind of crime story is your thing it is well written, full of details, and physiological mind benders.
I have read every one of the Cartel stories and when I start reading I don’t want to stop for anything. Then I have to wait a month for the rest of the next part of the story.
All installments deserve a 5+ rating — I am so anxious for the brothers safety — and know that there will be more twists and turns for the brothers.
This is a great dark, disturbing, hard to read psychological thriller. Not a romance but there is love in Mat’s drive to do anything he can to save his brother regardless of what has become of them at the hands of others. It’s hard to just jump into the series at this point, as you acknowledged, and get a real feel for how the situation with Mat and Dougie has developed..
Damn it, I should have pick this up. It seems just like my kind of read. I really wonder how on earth I missed this series. *shakes head at self*
LOl Thomiie I was thiking the same though I dont care much for serial reads I like the entire book at one pop. but this really is intriguing..