For Detective Edgar ” Lefty” Mendieta, tormented by past heartbreak & dismayed by all-pervasive corruption, the murder of lawyer Bruno Canizales represents just another day at the office in Culiacan, Mexico`s capital of narco-crime. There is no shortage of suspects in a city where it`s hard to tell the gangsters from the politicians. Canizales was the son of a former government minister & the lover of a drug lord`s daughter, & he nurtured a penchant for cross-dressing & edgy sex. But why did the assassin use a silver bullet? & why, six days later, did he apparently strike again? Mendieta`s hunt for the killer takes him from mansions to low-life bars, from gumshoe reporters to glamourous transsexuals. Unearthing the truth can be as dangerous as any drug.