At first glance, Gabriel Cardona was a poster-boy American teenager: athletic, bright, handsome and charismatic. But the streets of his border town of Laredo, Texas were poor and dangerous, and it wasn’t long before Gabriel, along with some childhood friends, abandoned his promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the Mexican military, boosting cars and smuggling drugs. Within a few months they were to become some of the cartel’s most feared killers: Los Lobos, the Wolf Boys.
Mexican-born detective Robert Garcia had worked hard all his life, struggling to raise his family in America. As violence spilled over the border into his adopted country, Detective Garcia’s pursuit of the boys and their cartel leaders would place him face to face with the terrible consequences of a war he came to see as unwinnable.