RANCHO BUENA FORTUNA
RANCHO BUENA FORTUNA
An obscure, ramshackle ranch on the southern bank of the Rio Grande turns out to be a secret gateway for major terrorist attacks suddenly breaking out throughout the United States.
Pete Cortez, an on-the-outs FBI special agent with the Houston Field Office, is temporarily sent to the border on a make-or-break assignment to salvage his precarious career.
THE NORTHERN LIGHTS
RANCHO BUENA FORTUNA
A supertanker just 50 miles off the coast of Galveston and carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil is engaged in transferring several hundred thousand barrels of crude onto a smaller tanker on the open seas.
Who sabotaged the supertanker, why did they put the marine habitat of the Gulf Coast at risk, and why would they kill to keep their secret?
THE VENEZUELAN
In a daring nighttime raid, a notorious Venezuelan terrorist is liberated from a remote Agency compound hidden deep within the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, reigniting a centuries-old territorial dispute involving Venezuela & Guyana...and unimaginable power and riches.
Although published five years ago, this work of fiction may help you better understand the chaos of modern-day Venezuela.
HEART OF GOLD
An international medical conglomerate secretly creates a state-of-the-art surgical center within the Texas Medical Center district in Houston to perform organ transplants for wealthy patients desperate to find a suitable match at any price.
The concierge-style operation uses a public clinic in Monterrey, Mexico, to source its organ matches, unbeknownst to the impoverished donors, who are led to believe they will simply be donating a kidney.
THE CAJUN PIÑATA
To help shore up the finances of their inherited East Texas lumber mill, a brother and sister enter a Faustian Bargain where they agree to use their transportation network to distribute drugs (cocaine, and later meth) for an old friend from Mexico to the Southeast and Midwest.
By the time law enforcement even becomes aware of their existence, the siblings are already laundering several hundred million dollars a year, including more than $70 million a year through the local private university.
THE CONSULAR OFFICIAL
A junior official with the Mexican Consulate in Houston is abducted, his $600,000 automobile left abandoned in a pharmacy parking lot.
Who kidnapped Pepe Alonso? Was it a rival Mexican cartel looking to cripple a competitor? One of the myriad local Houston gangs hoping for a big payday? A right-wing Texas militia group looking to finance its future operations? Could it be the Mexican government…or perhaps even the U.S. government? Or maybe even someone else entirely?
TROUBLE IN VALDEZ COUNTY
A young woman, fresh out of college and with no law enforcement experience, is shockingly elected as sheriff of a remote rural county on the border with Mexico and is faced with hostility from corrupt local politicos and their cartel backers.
But that was before folks first learned about the "Gringo Safari."
THE SALTY IGUANA
Set amid the chaos along modern-day Texas’ southern border with Mexico, the fractious commissioners court of a remote rural county suddenly declares its independence from both Texas and the US, renaming itself the Revolutionary Republic of Yucatec del Norte.
Spoiler Alert: it did not go well.