Two criminal oligarchs-one Mexican, the other French-secretly join forces to make their extensive logistics and distribution networks available to global terrorists ... with terrifying consequences. Their point of entry into the United States is a seemingly unremarkable weekend retreat (Rancho Buena Fortuna) on the southern banks of the Rio Grande that has been owned for generations by a prominent Monterrey family. Overseeing this dangerous gateway into the American homeland are a young Stanford-educated engineer named Graciela Montoya and a mercurial Venezuelan terrorist known as Fósforo. Standing between them and the deaths of thousands of innocents is FBI Special Agent Porfirio "Pete" Cortez, whose career is on thin ice as vultures in blue suits circle in for the kill. Set amid the gritty landscape of south Texas, RANCHO BUENA FORTUNA is the first book in Bill King's Pete Cortez FBI Thriller series. If you enjoy quirky characters from authors like John Sandford, Robert B. Parker, and Elmore Leonard, you'll love Pete Cortez.