Trojan Soil

Bob Strong cherishes, appreciates and embraces his idyllic, comfortable life. He is a successfulTexas businessman with an intelligent and beautiful wife, an extraordinary son in college and a remarkable daughter in high school. Every piece of the puzzle fits perfectly.

Then his flawless world is rent asunder when one of his children suffers a meaningless and tragic death. It shreds the fabric of his being.

Trapped between the paralysis of agony at his loss and unfettered, white-hot rage, he vows to take down the man he holds responsible. His target is Juan Naranjo, a drug producer and distributor in Colombia.

Strong unleashes his outrage to the DEA, but is rewarded with an ineffectual, bureaucratic logjam. Dissatisfied with their activity, he launches a public ridicule of the Federal Agency through the media.

In further frustration of inaction, he reaches the end of his rope. Strong is an ex-Navy Seal, but left those violent-action ways more than thirty years ago. To himself and his wife, he vows to take down the deadly Naranjo Operation. He forms a team of ex-Seal brothers and others to assist him in dismantling, ruining and incapacitating the drug lord. He fabricates a clever, shrewd, many-faceted strategy to devastate the kingpin of that dangerous family.

Along the way, his vendetta takes the team to El Paso, Texas, Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia. He is forced to confront his views of situational ethics. He must examine his own moral compass and how far to debate from it. As the vendetta winds down, he must determine whether the end justifies the means.

Is Bob Strong satisfied with the results?