The Mexican Gambit

by Chuck Williams

Overview

Lead or silver; a bribe or a bullet. Those are the choices in a world of crime, drugs, politics, corrupt politicians, thwarted ambitions, rivalries and revenge. It's no place for a cop who just wants to do his job and keep his hands clean.
His wry cynicism and idiosyncratic mindset help keep him sane, but when his boss hands him a murder case with a warning that it isn't an ordinary murder, his life changes.
Now he's in the middle of a deadly rivalry between heavyweight egos, one touched with greed and madness, the other obsessed with revenge.
His only way out is to take sides, and when he does he's surprised to find allies where he least expected them.
In spite of putting his life and that of his family at risk, nothing seems to work until a violent resolution comes from a direction he least expected.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940046444650
Publisher:	Chuck Williams
Publication date:	12/04/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	460 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Travel has always been important to me, for the adventure it unfolds, and because of my curiosity about other people and cultures. After college I joined the Peace Corps, and was assigned to Afghanistan, where I spent two years, first teaching English to middle school boys, and then for an English language newspaper, The Kabul Times, creating and placing advertising for the paper, part of the Afghan Ministry of Information. There I made a lifelong friend of my Afghan boss and his family. While in the Peace Corps I was able to travel to India, Thailand, and Cambodia, visiting Angkor Wat at a time when there were very few Western tourists in Cambodia.
On my return to the United States, I discovered there was a country next door to Texas where I lived that was in many ways as poorly known and understood as any other place I had seen in the world: Mexico.
I began visiting Mexico at a time when hitch hiking was safe, and traveled many times across the country from the Texas border to Guatemala, by hitch hiking, train, and bus. I found friendly, enthusiastic, welcoming people who spoke many languages in addition to Spanish. In spite of my limited Spanish I heard their many stories. They spoke of brutal oppression in the past, as well as their love of life and their country. They told of mysteries and hidden secrets in the mountains and jungles: yes, there were buried ruins out there; if I wanted to visit, it was possible.
Later when I had a family of my own, I took my son and daughter to experience Mexico, and then when they no longer needed looking after, I continued to travel in Mexico. The colonial cities, the modern metropolis, the pre-Columbian pyramids and ruins, the beaches and jungle, the highland plateau of the Sierras, all continue to draw me to them, and finally to write about them.