The Pact with the Devil Hardcover -

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On the outside, Travis Nelson is a handsome, articulate, and insatiably driven Texas real estate mogul. He has strived through the years to achieve an impeccable reputation in the community to support his very successful business. However, behind closed doors he is an arrogant, intimating bully who takes his own family for granted. Suddenly, he discovers that his company's fortunes have taken a nosedive.

For the first time in his career Nelson is in trouble. Lenders are nervous and threatening, and he needs cash to stay afloat. Just in time he is approached by Rodolfo Morales, a Mexican drug kingpin who hopes to use Nelson's residential properties along the border as safe havens in his smuggling operation. The "Durango Deal" is struck and both sides prosper - for a while.

A nosey old lady who lives in one of Nelson's properties unwittingly initiates the unraveling of the arrangement, and the DEA is soon hot on Nelson's trail. His business and personal lives plummet into freefall. Meanwhile, Morales reacts predictably to solve the problem - eliminate his deceitful American partner. Two men of such grand ambition can't coexist, but they soon realize that they are inextricably linked by mutual debts of gratitude regarding their families.