Crooked LA deputy Bradley Jones and his pregnant wife, the charismatic songwriter Erin McKenna, are brutally attacked in their home -- and Erin is kidnapped by Benjamin Armenta, head of a powerful drug cartel. He tells Jones the ransom is $1 million to get his wife back or she'll be skinned alive. In his YucatΓ‘n stronghold, Armenta tells Erin that if she is to survive, she must compose Mexican folk ballads romanticizing his daring drug dealings.
Jones turns to fellow deputy Charlie Hood for help in retrieving Erin and paying the ransom. Who will be the one to rescue the woman they both love?
This fifth outing for Charlie Hood takes some dark and dangerous turns as he deals with the evil that men thrust upon on each other -- and the innocent people who get caught in the crossfire.
Erin McKenna, a beautiful songwriter married to a crooked
Los Angeles County sheriffβs deputy, is kidnapped by
Benjamin Armenta, the ruthless leader of the powerful Gulf
Cartel. But his demands are as unusual as the crumbling
castle in which Erin is kept. She is ordered to compose a
unique narcocorrido, a folk ballad that records the exploits
of the drug dealers, gunrunners, and outlaws who have
populated Mexican history for generations. Under the threat
of death, Armenta orders Erin to tell his life story β in
music β and write βthe greatest narcocorrido of all time.β
As the mesmerizing music and lyrics of Erinβs song cascade
from the jungle hideout, they serve as a siren song to the
two men who love her: her outlaw husband, Bradley Jones, and
the lawman, Charlie Hood β who together have the power to
rescue her. Here, amid the ancient beauty of the Yucatecan
lowlands, the long-simmering rivalry between these two men
will be brought closer to its explosive finale.
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