The city of La Eternidad, Mexico, is being torn apart by competing gangs who want control. At varies times the police chief has helped one side or the other as he is just as corrupt as the criminals. This level of corruption lead Carlos Trevino quitting and moving away as he wanted to live.

Years later he is hired to find the missing daughter of a local business man. He very reluctantly accepts the job but it means he must face his past.

Then, halfway through the book, Carlos disappears and we follow the police chief. We do learn more about Carlos but the second half of the book is mostly about the police chief. It's almost like there are two stories here. This shift of focus changes the story completely. However, by this time I didn't really care what happened any of them.

I didn't like these characters. It's an eye opening story about the dark side of life in Mexico but the story was too disjointed for me to enjoy. The ending of all the story lines was wrapped up very quickly and not very satisfying. It was a challenge to read this not because of the subject, but because of the writing style.