When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing adult daughter she isn't afraid even though she's gotten a phone call asking for ransom. She knows it's a fake that her daughter is off with the guy Nita will only call that boy" & that they need money: " Even smart girls do stupid things when they think a boy loves them." But she is wrong. The girl & her boyfriend have been taken by bajadores
- bandits who prey on other bandits border professionals who prey not only on innocent victims but on each other. They steal drugs guns & people
- buying & selling victims like commodities & killing the ones they can't get a price for. Cole & Pike find the spot where they were taken. There are tire tracks bullet casings & bloodstains. They know things look as bad as possible. But they are wrong too. It is about to get much worse. Going undercover to find the two young people & buy them back Cole himself is taken & disappears. Now it is up to Joe Pike to retrace Cole's steps burning through the hard & murderous world of human traffickers to find his friend. But he may already be too late."