His career ruined, his marriage over and his father murdered...Drum Bailey moves to the island he inherited just west of Ocean City, Maryland to find some direction in his life. But the kidnapping of an old family friend lures him to the jungles of Mexico and forces him to go up against a cartel financier and one of Mexico's wealthiest and most dangerous families. He enters a maelstrom of sex, greed, murder and survival as he tries to find the many answers that haunt him.

After almost being fatally wounded in the line of duty as an I.C.E. agent for Homeland Security, Drum Bailey's life went from busting illegal Pharma kitchens, cocaine traffickers and cross-border marijuana mules in the jungles of South America and Mexico, to a long-term, painful recovery period of physical therapy and nauseating drugs. Finding that a certain naturally grown plant he experienced once, helped his condition immensely, he dumped the prescriptions and became a steady, responsible and discreet user. It's been two years since he ran afoul of the Masabanda cartel in Mexico, and a...