Multiple award-winning author Thomas J. Nichols has penned the second in the Border War Series. “We Were Young Once…,” follows his top-selling “Color of the Prism” in taking the reader into the depths of human and drug trafficking along the Mexican border with New Mexico and Arizona.
Focused in the near-ghost town of Hachita, New Mexico, Agent Enrique Basurto, a member of the Joint Task Force on Human and Narcotic Interdiction encounters the limitless terror of the Juarez/La Linea Cartel.
Nichols’ professional experience and writing style were commended by a Writer’s Digest review, “… what impressed me was the verisimilitude, the sense of being taken into a story by an author who really had been there and done that.”
“We Were Young Once…,” continues in that vein. You truly will go into the depths of the Border Wars. Be prepared.
more of his officers, gathered in the Juarez apartment. No one was in uniform. We could see the front of the house, plus we had a camera focused on the rear. Nobody had come or gone. Catalina should still be there along with the woman, Matagente, and whoever else we didn’t know.
officers carried an AR-15, a sidearm, and one man at the front and another at the rear had a doorknocker—a steel twenty-pound battering ram.
The officers in the rear were doing the same.
Matagente bolted out of a side room with a handgun at the ready position..