Darkness in Partido

Edward Cunningham, once a powerful self-made billionaire publishing tycoon and presidential hopeful, now a disgraced former governor turned paranoid recluse living atop the Waldorf-Astoria, summons a former protégé to search for his missing son, Peter.

Recently divorced, nearly bankrupt after squandering a six-figure bonus, and grossly underemployed in Northern Virginia, Devon Barton meets his one-time mentor in New York City and despite his best judgment, agrees to look into the boy’s sudden disappearance.

The trail moves swiftly from a deadly blizzard pounding the Great Plains, to a strange late-night turn of events at an obscure Catholic college hidden high in California’s rugged Los Padres Mountains.

When a dying nun in a sweltering jungle convent eleven thousand miles from home finally reveals horrifying secrets of the past, a presumably innocent romantic elopement turns into something far more sinister.

After old scores are settled violently, raw emotions explode. Humiliation turns to rage, and the search for Peter becomes a frantic race against time...

About the Author:

Born and raised in rural South Dakota, Mathias Korzan went on to become a political theorist and consultant. He has traveled extensively, developing a fascination for Southeast Asia in the process, most notably the Philippines. Korzan lives with his wife, Bam, daughter, Alexis, and son, Floyd, near Huntley Meadows — a freshwater wetland turned heron sanctuary that was carved out by an ancient meander of the Potomac River — in historic Alexandria, Virginia where he continues to write.