An ex-CIA agent attempts to make amends for his dark past with one last mission to Mexico in James Garmisch's adrenaline-pumping debut thriller Silver, Lead and Dead. Evan Hernandez feels he has nothing left to lose. Lies and past actions have wrecked his career and caused the death of his family. He sees a chance at redemption when he travels to Juarez to pay a ransom for a family friend. In Mexico, he unwittingly botches an operation run by a covert para-military orginization. The groups aim: to destroy the Eastern Cartel, which is protected by former members of Mexican Special Forces. Evan weighs his options. Should he agree to infiltrate the world of the cartels? Why is the man who killed his family years earlier in Columbia out of prison and in Mexico? Should he Step back into a game that at one time cost him everything? Or will his desire for vengeance lead to his destruction?