Los Dorados de Santa Maria are Mexico's most feared drug cartel. Headed by El Sombrero Negro - the grammatically-incorrect yet savagely-violent High Priestess to the Darkest Candle - their global operation is enforced by sicario hit squads, supernatural allegiances and good old-fashioned, common or garden terror.

Rookie MI6 agent Bristo Trabant and experienced French secret service operative, Eva Avante, are next on the cartel's death list, and for a reason they can't possibly comprehend. Innocence is an irrelevance, their death a promise to the narco saint. And the hitman is moving in - silent, stealthily ...

From London's Southbank to the Sonoran Desert, via subArctic Canada, join Bristo on his relentless, apple strudel-laced hell ride through the bullet-riddled world of the narcotraficantes. He can't run, can't hide - but boy can he bake! And with a gun pressed against Eva's head and MI6 inflitrated, his only option is to face Los Dorados head on - one man, loaded with strudel, against an organisation of ten thousand. And just when the odds seemed impossible, enter the world's most notorious arms trafficker - Gunboat Charlie Chavez.

Not a coyote's chance in hell? Perhaps ...

But as the old Mexican tale says: Santa Muerte – Our Lady of Holy Death ... there's nothing quite like her for really bringing someone to life.

So, saddle up, count your bullets and head south ...

And remember - when the going gets tough, the tough eat strudel!