Run for the Devil

A looming drug war threatens to turn Campeche into a killing field. A notorious narco-terrorist known as El Demonio, ‘the devil’, wants to use Donovan’s ship to further his plans to take control of the criminal gangs in Campeche to resist a ruthless band of deserters from the Mexican army’s elite special forces determined to force the local traffickers into joining their cartel. Despite his best efforts to keep El Demonio from getting his ship, his foolish pursuit of forbidden fruit – a minister’s wife, a haunting image of his lost love, has put he and his crew in danger of making a run for the devil.

The Moonlight Runner

Simon Donovan tried to escape his troubled past by buying an old schooner and reinventing himself as a sailing charter skipper in a Mexican backwater. Fate, however had other plans. Both his and his ship’s past come back to haunt him in the form of a beautiful minister’s wife and a vindictive drug lord called “El Demonio”.

El Demonio resents losing the last drug war to the Norteño cartel’s Colonel Barca and his elite narco-paramilitaries, who are in a neighboring state fighting rival traffickers. He plans to lure the colonel’s rear guard led by the impetuous Cisco Cisneros and his unwashed army of thugs into a trap forcing the colonel into a rematch.

All El Demonio needs is to rally the Campeche Gangs, but to do that he needs guns … and Donovan’s ship to bring them in. To achieve his deadly plan, he kidnaps his new love and forces Donovan to make a moonlit run to the most treacherous part of the Texas coast.

The Ghosts of Punta Morro

As hard as Simon Donovan tries to reinvent himself as a charter schooner captain, he found that he can’t run from the ghosts of his past. El Demonio has taken Itzél and threatens to kill her if he doesn’t give him a shipment of illegal rifles he has in his possession. In the final book of the Run for the Devil trilogy, Donovan is faced with a deadly choice: give El Demonio his guns, and plunge peace-loving Campeche into a deadly drug war or lose the woman he loves.

With everything to lose, Donovan turns to some dubious allies for help including a notorious vigilante he doesn’t trust, a cynical ex-policeman, and El Demonio’s archenemy, the ruthless narcoterrorist known as the Thunderbolt. He even gets some unexpected help from the shadow world as he risks joining the ghosts of Punta Morro to save the woman he loves.