John Hoon-nah Hetaw Becker was born to the son of a Red Lodge Montana rancher and an unwed Shoshone-Arapaho mother on Wyoming's Wind River reservation. From age four to eight raised by his stepmother in Iwakuni Japan. Caught between three very different worlds he never fit in. A one-time active-duty Marine and former soldier of fortune. Now self-exiled in Saipan making a precarious living spearfishing the western Pacific's deep waters. When his best friend's widow disappears in Mexico. He learns she had made the perilous journey to rescue her late husband's nineteen-year-old niece, held by narcotics traffickers. Seeking redemption he travels to the dangerous Mexican state of Sinaloa. An alliance is formed with a young municipal police chief and her seventy-two-year-old deputy in a small pueblo that is terrorized by both the cartel and a serial killer.