Two criminal oligarchs - one Mexican, the other French - secretly join forces to make their extensive logistics and distribution networks available to global terrorists ... for a price. Their instrument: a mercurial Venezuelan known as Fósforo, like the match you strike to spark a flame. Their composer: a young Stanford-educated engineer named Graciela Montoya. Standing between them and the deaths of thousands of innocents is FBI Special Agent Porfirio "Pete" Cortez. Pete Cortez is a goner and he knows it. His once promising career is now in serious jeopardy and the vultures in blue suits are circling in for the kill. As if that isn't bad enough, a crazed drug enforcer with an eye toward revenge wants him dead. While the focus of the nation's law enforcement is riveted on stopping a rash of increasingly more violent bombing attacks on Federal Reserve Banks, Cortez is shunted off to the Laredo Field Office to help track down a violent drug trafficker known only as Chucho.The investigation into the Fed bombers is going nowhere. Led by a young Stanford-educated engineer named Graciela Montoya and a mercurial Venezuelan known as Fósforo, they are able to enter and exit the U.S. at will through a mysterious border gateway known as the Rancho Buena Fortuna. Their ultimate target will bring death to millions of Americans...and the clock is ticking.While working the sideshow Chucho investigation, Cortez stumbles across the Rancho Buena Fortuna. Will he be able to unravel the tenuous link between Chucho, The Rancho and Fósforo in time to uncover their ultimate objective and prevent the death of millions of Americans? RANCHO BUENA FORTUNA is the first book in Bill King's mystery/thriller series about a fifth-generation Texan whose sense of right and wrong often brings him into conflict with the leadership of his chosen profession. If you enjoy idiosyncratic characters like John Sandford's Lucas Davenport, you'll love Pete Cortez.