Trapped

By John Stimson

One Bank. Three Raiders. No Exit.

There is a suburban Los Angeles bank that a Mexican drug cartel secretly owns. It is operated like every other bank in the neighborhood. Most customers use its services for savings, checking, and loans. Others use it as a clearinghouse for laundering and holding ill-gotten gains and proceeds meant to avoid government scrutiny.

Three former Marine Corps Raiders--highly-trained, specialized operators who conduct direct action, unconventional warfare in high-stakes environments--stage a heist of bearer bonds stored in the vault. When their means of escape are stymied, the heist devolves into a siege and stand-off. When their inside man dies, it becomes a contained murder mystery. Who among the hostages is a killer?

Drama inside the bank as well as outside. Nolan Kemp, a celebrated FBI hostage negotiator, in town for a speaking engagement, offers his assistance to the LAPD. Just as Kemp establishes a rapport with the hostage-takers' leader, Cesar Jasso, the highest-ranking FBI official in Los Angeles, Clarence Goode, arrives to claim control of the crisis. Kemp and Goode share a past where the death of a hostage still haunts Kemp. Goode's management style leads to more deaths in the bank. Goode has no problem if Jasso and his men exit the bank in body bags.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQNQJ1Y6
• ISBN13: 9798250006439
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"