In 1992 Mexico
an active
guerilla movement and growing drug trade render sizable areas of the
country dangerous. Poor, embittered, alone, devastated
by divorce,
betrayal, and loss of faith, Gray Becket travels
by bus to
his deceased parents' Pacific coast resort home. On a deserted stretch of highway a
death squad stops the vehicle and massacres the
passengers. Becket escapes but is wounded. He
makes his way south to
Valencia, a town near the upscale community his parents retired
to,
and he seeks out the help of old friend, Henry
Mosely. In the nearby port city of Santa Rosa our quasi-hero meets
a journalist
from a New Orleans' newspaper
who is investigating the rumored massacre. Becket and the reporter,
Killeen Maxwell, with the help of Mosely,
make a
run on motorcycles to a notorious guerrilla leader's camp
where a second massacre
survivor can
provide additional credibility for the reporter's investigatory
bombshell.
A secret
police Colonel, known throughout the underground as El Vampiro,
marshals forces to prevent the rendezvous. Becket and and Maxwell,
driven by separate purposes, fall in love en route.
