CURE has a new arm set up to deal specifically with terrorism. It’s leader is Ben Cole, a former Mossad agent. He’s answerable to Smith only. He has two enforcement arms, Stone Smith, retired Navy SEAL, and Freya, a just turned sixteen year old blond.

And both of them are the children of Remo Williams, with different mothers, and both were trained by Sunny Joe Roam, leader of the southern Arizona Indian tribe known as Sinanju. The ancestor of that tribe was one of a pair of identical twin Korean brothers. Since there could only be one Master of Sinanju at a time, one brother had struck out from Korea in the sixteen hundreds on a boat, landing on the Southwestern coast of America where he was made welcome by one tribe, beginning to train his son after the chief was murdered by rival tribes, assuming command and taking one as a wife.

Sunny Joe Roam is the current leader. And he’s also the biological father of Remo Williams.

Though much younger than Stone, Freya is more fully trained in Sinanju because Stone, while learning, clings to his SEAL training and the use of weapons. He also smokes.

In this first book, the pair deal with a Mexican drug cartel trying to slip something into this country, some sort of weapon. Instigating it is a shadowy organization called VIGIL, one that stretches back for centuries, one intent on controlling the world.

This series shows promise, building on things revealed in early Destroyer novels and has some of that same sarcastic look at today’s world, with thnily disguised looks at some real world people.

I look forward to the next novel coming soon. FORGOTTEN SON can be ordered here.