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About A Fiery Dusk

Jesse Martinez has settled in as one the younger federal prosecutors in San Antonio, Texas. Despite his good natured, and often disarming style, Martinez is aggressive and relentless when pursuing drug dealers, cartels, and gang members. Martinez targets one of the most dangerous gangs in the state, if not the country, the Texas Mexican Mafia. Federal agents have identified dozens of murders the gang has carried out but have gone unsolved and unpunished. Martinez is determined to have his agents solve the murders and go after the gang with federal racketeering charges. But as he embarks on an unparalleled investigation of the Mexican Mafia, his personal life is taking a toll on him. He drinks too much and he struggles to escape the clutches of his old Northside Houston neighborhood, with its vices and dysfunction. In the meantime, the investigation gathers steam and plows ahead with Martinez leading the assault on the gang. But all the while, Martinez’s demons are present and threaten to undermine the massive, secret investigation that will bring the gang to its knees if it succeeds. The story in these pages is another realistic crime thriller by Joey Contreras who deftly exposes for the reader gangs and their willingness to murder anyone who crosses them. The drama portrayed in this book could only be told by someone who’s actually prosecuted multiple gangs including the Texas Mexican Mafia and handled dozens of murder prosecutions. A Fiery Dusk is the final story in a trilogy that was preceded by Sunday Morning Coming Down and From Darkness, Light.

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