An ex-CIA agent attempts to make amends for his dark past with one last mission to Mexico in James Garmisch’s adrenaline-pumping debut thriller Silver, Lead and Dead. Evan Hernandez feels he has nothing left to lose. Lies and past actions have wrecked his career and caused the death of his family. He sees a chance at redemption when he travels to Juarez to pay a ransom for a family friend. In Mexico, he unwittingly botches an operation run by a covert para-military orginization. The groups aim: to destroy the Eastern Cartel, which is protected by former members of Mexican Special Forces. Evan weighs his options. Should he agree to infiltrate the world of the cartels? Why is the man who killed his family years earlier in Columbia out of prison and in Mexico? Should he Step back into a game that at one time cost him everything? Or will his desire for vengeance lead to his destruction?
The Story Behind This Book
Mexico is the perfect setting for well, about anything crime related. Some feel that Mexico is drifting toward a Narco state. I choose Mexico as a setting after reading books like El Narco, the web site Borderland Beat, and hundreds of news stories about acts such as Mexican Special Forces deserting to work for Cartels and gangs trafficking the organs of children. I have also spoken with law enforcement as well as people who live there. The truth is way stranger than fiction. Many of the scenarios in the book come from real life. From Pablo Escobar to Narco subs to the attempt to unite all the Cartels into a Union. All has happened in one form or another.