In Memory of Sonny Pinto

Things are different in Mexico. Drug cartels fight over delivery routes to the U.S. market. Police and government officials who will not take bribes are eliminated. The military patrol the streets with M-16s pointed at people. Mexicans hope the good will win.Onions McGraw is hitman for national security. He loves Karl, his son who lives in Mexico, and wants to spend time with him before it is too late. Carole Tremblay, his girlfriend and provincial cop, is shot after they deliver Sonny Pinto to Dorval airport for extradition to Mexico. He sues the government over a beating he got in prison.Canada settles out of court because it does not want a trial.Carole presents a friend to Onions. Carmen Jolibois wants him to stop General Chaing Lee from blackmailing her husband. He has to send parts of rocket propelled grenades in fruit shipments to Mexico on the way to Afghanistan. Her brother, Maurice, is a physician in Haiti and a taxi driver in Montreal.The fat cop writes the report after a crocodile finishes this affair in the hotel swimming pool.

R. M. Tomlinson comes from a military family. Between Penn State and PMC he helped make helicopters for Vietnam. He attended Temple Law School and worked in insurance for 18 years and quit. After earning a Diploma in Education at McGill, he taught ESL. He and Diane live in Quebec with Kelly. They winter in Mexico.