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Tim Kearney, a California DEA agent, faces life without parole after being sentenced for murdering a Hell’s Angel biker. To avoid execution, the agency proposes a daring plan: he must assume the identity of the legendary drug trafficker Bobby Z. Success would allow a trade with Mexican cartel kingpin Don Huertero for a captured DEA agent. Kearney travels to a desert compound designed to resemble an Arab fort from the film *Beau Jeste*, where he meets Bobby Z’s former lover Elizabeth and her son, whom she claims are his. With bikers, cartel members, and law enforcement closing in, Kearney must navigate a perilous undercover mission while keeping his newfound family safe.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Adventure Fiction/Action Adventure
Authors: Don Winslow
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