ASIN: B00NZLOP3E
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 394
The quest for a new, more adventurous life, takes a young salesman to the Mexican border where he soon finds himself inextricably immersed in gunrunning and murder…..Scott had envisioned palm-shaded plazas and cobblestone streets lined with elegant haciendas, similar to resort villages he’d visited in Mexico. What he found in Laredo, Texas were hot, dusty streets lined with junky import yards, shotgun houses and rowdy cantinas. Ben, his new partner, claimed to be taking in more than forty-four thousand a month at his import business, but Scott was beginning to doubt that story. The characters he’d met so far were pretty-much like the town . . . rundown at the heels. Some of them ran wholesale import businesses; others claimed to deal in imports but didn’t seem to have a fixed place of business. They spent much of their time huddled in the booths of local cafes, engaged in hushed ...
