Kingdom of Ash The Cartel Republic – Empire of Blood by Panesar, Hardev

Cartels don’t just move product anymore—they move permission.

A private switch welded to a city console. A drone that can turn a crowd into a warning. A shell bank that launders murder as “security.”

When a desert handoff goes sideways, ex-operative Dante Moretti and a relentless lens woman, Isabella Cruz, stumble into the Ceniza Root—a hidden registry of shutters, kill demos, and ports bought like lungs. The men who rent our oxygen will do anything to keep that map in the dark.

From midnight auctions in Guadalajara to the high ring of Sarit Centre and the roses at Westgate; from Mombasa’s Kipevu cranes under a storm to glass rooms on the Potomac, the chase rips through boardrooms, catwalks, and hearing halls while mercenaries, sicarias, and “handlers” with immaculate budgets script the world’s next empire.

Dante wants the switch back on the wall where everyone can see it. Isabella wants the truth in a light too bright to be rented. Between them and daylight: kill teams on payroll, corrupt officials smiling for cameras, and a new world order built on logistics and fear.

This isn’t a war for a throne.

It’s a fight over who gets to turn the lights on.

Kingdom of Ash — The Cartel Republic is a high-velocity thriller about power, ports, and the quiet machinery that decides who breathes. When the smoke clears, ash is all that’s left—unless someone makes the world boring on purpose again.