Guillermo Paxton

Memo Smith was a talented deputy with the Do a Ana Sheriff's Department. After letting illegal immigrants go from a traffic stop, the border patrol pressures the department to get rid of him. After resigning from the department and a bitter divorce, Smith moves to Juarez, Mexico to save money and instead becomes a key player in the new Juarez Cartel. Lalo Torres, a newly promoted detective with the El Paso Police Department, happens upon corruption within his division that is linked with the Juarez Cartel. Despite threats and a few attempts on his life, Lalo continues his investigation which leads to tragedy. He teeters on the edge of sanity as he becomes an avenging angel and takes out the corrupt police and the members of the cartel, one by one. Based on true events in the author's life, Cartel Rising takes the reader deep into the workings of the drug trade and the Mexican Mafia.

Felix Ca ez is a police detective in the violent city of Juarez, Mexico. His cruelty is well-known both among those that work with him as well as the unlucky criminals that cross his path. His wife, Julia, is a beautiful woman, who believes that her future doesn't exist without Felix. She becomes obsessive about her looks after his infidelities, yet feels powerless to change her life. Until, of course, she meets Lila, a prostitute that Omar hires to spice up their sex life and "make his wife happy." Before Julia, Lila kept her heart from loving anyone but her kids. Now she is willing to do nearly anything to protect their forbidden love. A cross between the perils of the m -nage trois with the narco-violence of the Mexican drug war, Wilted Lily is based on actual events. For some, sex and violence are interchangeable. equally arousing as they are dangerous.