Carlo "Diablo" Mora is a twenty-three-year-old baggage handler at the Albuquerque airport. He never finished high school, belonged to a gang from the age of eleven, and is a fast talker. He's never had money, and the problem has grown with his marriage to Megan Marie. While loading baggage for a flight, he finds a wooden box filled with diamonds, and it's only a short step to stealing it. But Carlo finds out he's taken on a lot more than he can handle as he creates anguish and misery for his loved ones. Kenny James Wilcox, a man who likes to hurt people, and Adel Avelo, his violent lesbian cohort, are sent to retrieve the diamonds. They kill Carlo's mother, rape his wife, and hide her in the Sandia Mountains to flush out Carlo and the diamonds. Carlo asks himself if he really wants to risk the diamonds and what they could bring for himself and his wife.
When ex-cop Jeffery "J. T." Thorn is hired to bring back those linked to the diamonds, he doesn't hesitate to use violence to achieve his objective, fueling the already explosive situation.
Filled with murder, sex, and suspense and reminiscent of a Quentin Tarantino movie, this fast-paced novel reveals the ultimate price of greed.