Death in the Desert (Moonlight Mesa Associates, 2008) may be more nonfiction than fiction, as it portrays Arab-sponsored Mexican drug cartels bent on bringing economic and moral ruin to the United States. Ultimately, the goal is to see a Mexican flag waving over the White House, while Americans are on their knees begging for mercy…in Spanish.
Although the book is a distant sequel to Northern Escape, the award-winning thriller published by Helm Publishing in 2006, Death in the Desert easily stands on its own. Interestingly, the book features Jake Starr, an attractively flawed US Marshal with his own personal agenda of revenge despite the havoc surrounding him. For those wondering, it’s not intended to compare Starr to real-life Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Many have already asked if there will be a follow up to Jake Starr. For now, the answer is no.
The fact remains, and the book makes this point succinctly, this country is extremely vulnerable to illegal immigration with its thousands of miles of coastline, hundreds of ports of entry, and 2,000-mile southern border. Mounting evidence points to the fact that criminals and terrorists of the worst ilk are now illegally crossing the US-Mexico border every day.
An unpopular fact is that the flow of narcotics into this country is a consumer driven problem. No demand… no business. This may seem like a hard-line approach to a complex problem, but the fact is that if people weren’t buying and using illegal chemicals, the enterprising Mexican drug lord would be earning his wages by doing something completely different. Thousands of lives would not be lost in the drug wars, and despair would not descend on so many.
This brutal book is not for the dizzy, but the truth rarely is.
