What Was in the Cages
About this audiobook
Detective Steve Benson was supposed to be hunting a drug kingpin. Instead, the case cost him the person he trusted most.
After an undercover operation ends in murder, Steve is left with grief, unanswered questions, and one suspicion he cannot shake: someone inside the department may have betrayed his closest friend.
Then he is handed a case that seems almost insulting.
A stolen dog.
But one missing animal leads to another. Then another.
Soon Steve is following a trail through animal shelters, hidden warehouses, private compounds, suspicious shipments, and people willing to spend enormous amounts of money to keep certain doors closed.
What begins as a routine theft investigation becomes something far darker.
The cages are moving more than animals.
And somewhere inside the network is a connection to the criminal organization Steve thought he had already lost everything trying to destroy.
To uncover the truth, he will have to follow the evidence through hidden money, narcotics, blackmail, betrayal—and a secret operation no one was ever supposed to find.
Because the question is no longer simply what was in the cages.
It is who built the system around them—and who was willing to kill to protect it.
What Was in the Cages is a clean crime thriller and police procedural filled with suspense, mystery, betrayal, and unexpected turns—without profanity, sexual content, or graphic violence.
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About the author
DJ Rawlings retired after serving twenty-seven years as a special agent with the FBI. A lifelong reader of fiction, he now writes mysteries and thrillers about ordinary people confronting extraordinary secrets.
His stories are built on suspense, mystery, and unexpected twists—not profanity, sexual content, or graphic violence. He believes a novel can be intense, frightening, and impossible to put down without relying on material readers may wish had been left out.
DJ writes the kind of clean, compelling fiction he enjoys reading himself. He believes few things are more enjoyable than getting lost in a good novel—except writing one.
