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Cindy Fazzi | Title Challenge: MULTO
Author Guest / September 25, 2023

Hello, Cindy here. My thriller MULTO – meaning ghost in Tagalog – is about a Filipino American bounty hunter chasing an undocumented immigrant who can disappear like a ghost. I’m Filipino American like my protagonist, Domingo the bounty hunter. That’s where the similarity ends. Domingo is a new kind of hero for a diverse audience. He’s tough in the mold of Robert De Niro’s bounty-hunter character in Midnight Run, but with the sense of humor of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum (One for the Money). Looking for a fugitive requires a lot of waiting and stalking, so during downtime, Domingo writes a wiseass advice book for immigrants.     M is for Monica. She’s a biracial Filipina who travels to the U.S. and stays on illegally to look for her American father, an Air Force general who doesn’t know she exists. Unlike the criminal undocumented immigrants that Domingo usually hunts down, Monica is not a murderer or a drug dealer or a gun smuggler. Her biggest crime is to dream of being acknowledged by her father, who represents her American Dream. But the general wants her out of his country, and so he hires Domingo to take her to immigration authorities…