Published 22 December 2011

At a roadblock outside the Mexican seaside resort of Acapulco, a U.S. Embassy SUV is stopped at gunpoint. Of the vehicle’s four occupants, three are shot dead and the fourth taken hostage.

Fingers immediately point to one of Mexico’s ruthless drug-running cartels. Especially when a message arrives announcing that the kidnappers will release the hostage—U.S. Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel James D. Ferris—if a cartel kingpin serving a life sentence in a Colorado federal prison is let go in Mexico.

But when word gets to Charley Castillo and his Merry Band of Outlaws—Ferris is a West Point classmate and friend of Castillo—they have their doubts. Fresh from having enraged the Kremlin by staging a covert raid in Venezuela that nabbed not only high-value Russian agents but also a highly-prized secret Russian aircraft, they start connecting the dots.

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