Black & Co. Book One. Black & Co., #1

In BLACK & CO.-BOOK-ONE, a failed law student and struggling private investigator finds himself caught in a deadly web of corporate greed and organized crime. Here is a book description based on the novel's plot and themes:To the world, they are invisible. To him, the are a mission. John Black was supposed to be a lawyer. Instead, he's a twenty-seven-year-old private investigator living in a water-stained attic in Boyle Heights, still haunted by the federal building bombing that killed his mother.
He spends his days tracking the "invisible" people-those the city of Los Angeles would rather forget. When John is hired to find Luz Marina Reyes, a young immigrant phlebotomist who vanished without a trace, he expects a routine missing persons case. Instead, he wakes up bound in the back of a refrigerated van, the smell of bleach and old blood filling his nostrils. He soon realizes he isn't just a kidnap victim; he's a "subject" being prepared for a terrifying organ-harvesting ring run by the shadowy Seraphim Health Partners .
Barely escaping with his life, John teams up with his pragmatic landlord and actuarial analyst, Sofia Castellano. Together, they begin to dismantle a machine designed to treat human beings as commodities . From the gritty car washes of Vermont Avenue to the sterile mansions of Bel Air, John must use his "issue spotting" legal instincts to survive a hunt by a ruthless criminal network. In a city that thrives on anonymity, John Black is about to make the invisible visible-or die trying.