Juarez Justice
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ISBN: 0786703563 / Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, August 1996
Detective Sergeant Tommy Donahoo, aided by rookie San Diego Police Department investigator Cruz Martino, plunges into the dark side of slum-ridden Tijuana while investigating the bizarre rape-murder of a beautiful socialite
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Juarez Justice begins as a routine case of Mexican-American police cooperation. The Mexican cops request the help of the San Diego Police Department's top homicide detective in the bizarre rape and murder of a beautiful Tijuana socialite.Detective Sergeant Tommy Donahoo, accompanied by rookie SDPD investigator Cruz Marino, is quickly plunged into the dark side of slum-ridden Tijuana. Captain Carlos Torres of the local police force insists on showing him all that is wrong and evil and unjust - and also the man most responsible for Tijuana's pain, Diablo.Sifting through the squalor for the killer, discovering the innocence of the falsely accused suspect, Donahoo begins to think that he wasn't brought here to solve a murder, but rather to help commit one. Activist attorney Catalina Venezuela, who has lured him to her bed, and fallen in love with him, at last admits it. Some good people want Diablo dead, but in a way that guarantees them the freedom to build a better society.Donahoo angrily rejects the idea. But Marino, who is younger, less experienced, and more impressionable, can't tolerate the wrongdoing he sees. Too late, Donahoo realizes Marino's intention to kill Diablo. In the wild rush to stop him, to save him, he finds himself inexorably designated Diablo's assassin.
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