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Biography
Montanez received a B.S. from Southern Illinois University and a master degree from the International University Panama.

Works
In 2009, his first novel Lord Sereno was self-published in the Republic of Panama. It tells the story of a fictional aspiring young writer and journalist living in the Latino section of Chicago.

Montanez has gone on to publish a second novel: Panama Editor. Behind the plot, the villains think and act for selfish and self-centered motives, ruthless enough to order poisoning of the Attorney General and six innocent members of his Public Ministry staff. The crime network has cracked open the opportunities in the casino industry, contraband, legal and illegal prostitution, money laundering with the concept of Virtual Money, and a loosely known problem of Dirty Float. In the latter, a sleazy Panamanian attorney (Miguel Dumas), astute enough or dumb enough to involve the American intelligence as he made a few countries from the Pacific Basin to invest their money reserves in dollars. Such moves caused disruption in the United States normal Treasury flow. As a result, ICE, the IRS and possibly, the CIA is here looking into it.

The story features the incorruptible DIJ Inspector (Sam Cordell), his forensic investigator (Jenaro Solis), a Special ICE Agent (Humphrey Cooper), and a family of journalists (Elmer Giralt, Kasper Giralt, and Mara Totten) chasing the timely twists of the mass poisoning. In doing so, they uncover a cold case of two additional murders in which a writer (Vincent Totten) and a retired U.S. Army Green Beret (Pauper Gandia) had a convenient airplane accident in Albrook field, right after the U.S. Invasion of Panama. We come to discover Ethan Brolin, CEO of Legends Enterprise on Panama Viejo wanted to establish a Film Studio in Panama. He hired Vincent to write the script for a remake of The Quiet American; an unpopular film by Graham Green in 1955 due to the Clandestine Service involvement in it. The backdrop of the Panama-based Quiet American required Operation Blue Spoon; a combat plan the Americans had in store for the Invasion of 1989, which incidentally, was scratched at the last minute and replaced with Operation Just Cause.

The plot centers on an e-mail Muriel Lomas sent from Copecito, San Carlos. Then, we stumble upon the mystery in the intercepted e-mail, onto Lomas' death, onto complicated additions of plot in which the villains think they are doing well, but actually, the heroes play them with wiretaps and surveillance. Because of these maneuvers, we must wonder if the recent restructured security division of the U.S. Department of State operates in mysterious ways like old times, and what is that bothering some sectors in the Panamanian society.

Panama Editor is a sophisticated crime and espionage thriller in which how the media acts as instrument of propaganda, and underneath its weaving of events, it may reveal some sort of diplomatic revelation of how the United States spend its black budget, and execute perception management, as multiple characters define the events, blending between shadows and the open for a ton of suspense. An awesome thriller interesting to those near the game of American-Panamanian closeness and interesting to some who'd like to know what's going down here.