Follow The Washington Trail: New Cloak and Dagger Mystery Lampoons DC Corruption

A fast-paced thriller from our own Lou Aguilar.

The Washington Trail: A Slade and Cork Mystery Written by Lou Aguilar (Aethon Books, 304 pages, $21.99) Regular readers of Lou Aguilar’s weekly column for The American Spectator are familiar with the author’s signature passions. Above all, he is a patriot who supports Judeo-Christian values and eschews anything that even hints at woke-ism. For Aguilar, DC’s football team will always be the Washington Redskins not the Washington Commanders because he knows that Native Americans never took umbrage at the team’s original name but they were very offended by the left’s attempts to erase any linkage between the football team and the Indian warrior culture. Aguilar, a screenplay writer, also waxes eloquently about Hollywood, especially the Hollywood of days gone by before the progressive left spray painted it with political correctness transforming the once glamorous industry into what he has labeled Hollywoke.The author also uses his column to lament the disappearance of traditionally beautiful  and intelligent women from the big and the small screen in favor of unattractive and at times mean spirited she-devils. In Aguilar's world, the ideal woman is endowed with the intellectual acumen of an astrophysicist and the physical assets of Raquel Welch circa One Million Years B.C. (1966).  Such is the essence of Lou Aguilar. He is unabashedly blunt and politically incorrect. Yet behind his seemingly cynical veneer beats the heart of an optimist who embraces the transformative power of the chance encounter. He believes that the world is inhabited by contemporary incarnations of Fitzgerald’s Daisy Buchanan offering  “a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.” It is this embrace of serendipity coupled with film noir type intrigue that populates the pages of Aguilar’s latest novel, The Washington Trail: A Slade and Cork Mystery Thriller. Set in present day Washington, DC a few months in a...