redemption is often elusive!
people wrestle their demons or accommodate them. under-cover agents, jesus lopez and mickey pachuco aka scar, battle drug trafficking and gangsters running amok during the 1980s and 1990s in florida and on the west coast. decades before, on a hellish evening in 1967, the two men's futures took shape in a small village in guatemala. Then in july 2001 lopez and scar at last meet mano-a-mano in hilo, hawaii, to confront that nightmare encounter.
"Who the @#@ are you, and what do you want from me? Didn't you rob enough from a small boy and his family? Do you want to kill me like you did my father and my sister? "
surviving a civil war, battling the urban jungle, and searching for peace and love thrust Jesus amidst an interplay of characters. he and his lover, araceli embark on a manhunt for assassins of guillermo guerrero and emma hazelton. bobby bellamy, a compton drug kingpin whose limousine jesus chauffeurs, depends on him for solace especially when rival gangsters gun down his girlfriend, nakisha. senora miriam perez battling cancer offers him pieces to a baffling puzzle. disasters - an earthquake, a riot and a train ride along the west coast – are occasions of revelation.
meanwhile scar, ever alert to the transportation of contraband in south florida, befriends chico, one-time killer and now gay supplier of drugs to the rich and famous. their world dazzles and debilitates both men.
in the final encounter, will jesus lopez and scar aka mickey pachuco reconcile…