James E. Merriman

Bad Blood: (Murder or Self-defense on the Mexican Border) James E. Merriman

In the Mexican Sanchez family, power is literally a drug. Carlos, the family?s patriarch, runs the cartels and Hector, the eldest son, runs the country, but their profitable empire is threatened by a cartel uprising and internal, domestic strife. The cartels are weary of paying tribute to the family in exchange for protection from the police and military. Carlos has become psychotically obsessed with killing an American cowboy and businessmen who had the stones to interfere with a Sanchez drug operation in Arizona. Boots, the young daughter of the family, rebels against her traditional role as a woman and wants a cut of the family action. Meanwhile, Hector and his brother Ramón plot to take over the family business from their increasingly unstable father. From his base in Sonora, patriarch Carlos will plot to keep control of the family empire, kill the American cowboy, and bend his own daughter to his wishes.