The Artist - E-book - ePub

Toby, a graphic artist from Kentucky, who started a successful business painting custom motorcycles, finds himself over leveraged after expanding his operation and being ripped-off by a couple of his new employees. He saves the life of an acquaintance by shooting a man who tried to murder his friend Dwayne Cutler. Cutler, a rich, urban biker who, impressed with Toby's skill and nerve, offers Toby a chance to earn some quick money to save his business.
All Toby has to do is eliminate those who are attempting to sabotage Cutlers's international business interests. Desperate, Toby takes up the offer, and proves to be quite adept at dealing with "harsh realities" as Cutler calls them. The money from the assassinations keeps his custom motorcycle business running and even makes a tidy profit. However, while on a mission to deal with a "harsh reality" Toby learns that Cutler's diverse business dealings includes child sex trafficking.
Refusing to eliminate the targets, a Catholic Priest and a young trafficking victim named Michelle, Toby goes on the run in Texas. Trying to keep a low profile he takes up with some out of state motorcyclists on tour. Unfortunately, some of the riders have a "past" of their own, and Toby is drawn into a confrontation with members of a Mexican drug and sex trafficking cartel and now must not only try to avoid his former employer, but also stop a vicious killer from Mexico called Lobo, who is intent on taking a cargo of young American girls across the southern border.