The Old Whore: A Novel of Cartel Wars

Two years have past since a Mexican drug cartel reputedly shot down an American passenger plane down while it took off from Lindbergh Field in San Diego. The American people, overcome with grief, were satiated in part by a military reaction that decapitated Ruben (El Macho) Gonzales and the leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel. Despite the brief and successful military campaign, lauded for its ability to remove a narcotics kingpin surgically with minimal collateral damage, there have been those in the government who believed that they might have hit the wrong people. El Macho, depraved and vicious as he was might not have been the one who orchestrated the terrorist incident. Gary Granger takes the field once again in this sequel to Bloody Mexico as he seeks vengeance, not for the dead passengers on Pacific Airlines flight 281, but for a woman he loved whose life had been brutally cut short. In dystopian México, the absence of a just and moral government has led to a vacuum where evil runs virtually unchecked. Society festers where an underground empire rules a land in self-destruct mode. Rampant corruption at all levels thrives in an environment where many compromise their principles and their virtue for narco-money. Mexico’s ills go far deeper than just corrupt institutions. Endemic problems encompassing a broad- spectrum mean that, revamping the government will not result in any meaningful change. That approach has been tried in Mexico before and has failed.