The Black Horns

Vigo De Palma, canine patriarch of Medocci's largest mafia family, is dead. The reigns of his empire pass into the hands of his son-in-law, the mouflon Jirair al-Seif; or they would if De Palma's daughter, Yursa, would let them go. Freed from the De Palma patriarch's influence, the rival families of Medocci struggle to fill the power void. Al-Seif's partner, a mechanical voice he knows only as Freggs, seems content to watch the conflict unfold from the shadows.Meanwhile, agents of the ancient order of the Tiger's Stripe are hot on al-Seif's tail, intent on seeing the mouflon locked away for his crimes. But there is one among them who believes justice would be better served with a bullet, and her own blood boils with a vengeful power she has not even begun to understand.Haunted by his own past and caught between warring mafia factions, a duplicitous partner, and agents bent on his downfall, Jirair al-Seif prepares to fight for his own survival, a fight he knows he will win. Because he is Assad Alabwaq, the Black Horns, and he will reclaim what is rightfully his or see his enemies burned to ash around him.