HQ BK: The World Is Yours

Book Two in the HQ BK Series

By Rebecca Jean-Louis

SYNOPSIS

HQ BK: The World Is Yours follows Pierre “Cabrón” Taveras, a quiet linchpin of the first novel, as he orchestrates an endgame gambit to position himself where he belongs—and traces how he goes from a focused, self-contained Brooklyn logistics guy to the architect of his own global network.

The story opens in 2008, when Cabrón is released from federal prison after a six-year sentence tied to an illegal arms stash—the fallout from events detailed in HQ BK. But Cabrón’s real history starts in 2000, when he sells off a compromised garage for his best friend and unofficial boss, Mundo. After being sidelined from the follow-up, he begins quietly building something with his mentor and future business partner, Hopeton—first in real estate, then in remittance and wire transfers, eventually tapping into a multi-national network of underground currency brokers.

Along the way, there are flashbacks to the betrayal, the surveillance, and the arrest, all of which were seeded in HQ BK. You also see Cabrón in federal prison, leveling up educationally—earning a Master’s in Economics to accompany the B.A. in engineering he already holds—and then follow him post-release, as he weighs following Mundo to Panama or carving his own lane.

By 2010, Cabrón and Hopeton have relocated to Haiti, developing a network of street-level money changers who power the country’s remittance economy in the aftermath of the earthquake.

And that’s where Cabrón finally steps out of Mundo’s shadow and becomes a power to be reckoned with on his own terms.