Gavacho: A Journalistic Investigation into Illegal Immigration and Drug Smuggling. Book

In Gavacho, Danny O'Hara, reporter and columnist for the California Times newspaper in Los Angeles, is flung into a violent world of drug and illegal immigrant smuggling. With a cohort of friends, colleagues, and a long lost sweetheart, he battles street thugs in Los Angeles, politicians in Texas and Mexico, and his own publication to continue his pursuit of the story. Ignited by an anonymous phone call to the Times of a missing immigrant girl, O'Hara starts his investigation. It begins as a simple search for the nine-year-old girl, then evolves into a full blown crime investigation. As O'Hara unwinds each strand of the web, it leads him to yet another. Though set in the seventies, this fast paced, yet deliberate rendering of the story addresses issues that are alive and well, and still unresolved in the Tewnty-First Century.Read More