The war on drugs in Mexico has just begun. In 2008 alone, the border city of Juarez had more than 1500 homicides. William Paxton explores the drug world, its corruption within law enforcement and government, and its effect on the lives of the people sworn to or against it in his work of fiction inspired by true events, Smoke. Lalo, a hard-nosed El Paso cop, is forced to the edge of his sanity by the corruption within his department and bloodthirsty Mexican mafia. Is Memo, a drug cartel king in the city of Juarez, an unwitting pawn of destiny, or is he really a bad guy? Arturo, an assassin born from poverty, finds some strength in a strange cult called the Santa Muerte, but can he ever escape his victims' ghosts?. Smoke blends the cultures, religions and mysticism of two nations in this real-to-life adventure, horrifyingly similar to current events in Mexico.
The author, a Desert Storm veteran, spent several years working as an undercover agent, specializing in the Mexican Mafia....More >< Less