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So, Guero agrees to the manner in which he will pay his debt to Don Mendez. In return he is provided with transportation back to the States, a new identity, and a wad of cash to send him on his way. After a sojourn of several months in New Mexico, Guero hops on a bicycle… Continue reading Episode Twenty-Four

Finally out of the jungle and into the light, Guero, Madalena and Pablito brave the dangers of the road to Managua. They find shelter in a backstreet hotel, but when Madalena heads back to the street to change dollars for cordobas, fate once again intervenes. Waking in a Sandanista prison, Guero is interrogated (polite version),… Continue reading Episode Twenty-Three

At long last, Meghan finds her way back home. She reunites with Triese, who is suffering with medical issues, and uses her assets and connections to make sure Triese is set up, before going to work to seriously make her money grow. Back in Nicaragua, Guero and his impromptu retinue, make use of a curandera… Continue reading Episode Twenty-Two

On the road again, Meghan comes to rest in Boise freaking Idaho, where she renews her friendship with Kat, and meets Kat’s mother and daughter. Meghan gets to spend some time with Em, her namesake, before girlhood memories give way to the reality of Kat’s mom’s illness and passing.

After the assassination of Colonel Obando, Guero accompanies El Capitan on a vengeance tour to San Nicolas. But tour does not end well, and Guero, wounded again, disappears into the jungle. Back in Big Sur Meghan communes with ghosts, before selling out and moving back to San Francisco. But even in San Francisco the past… Continue reading Episode Twenty

Together with Cantu, Guero undertakes a mission in El Rama. When things go sideways, Guero finds himself staring at the empty space where Cantu and their truck had been parked, and should have been there waiting for him. Wounded and abandoned, Guero is left to his own devices to find a way back home. After… Continue reading Episode Nineteen

So, Francis begat Kelleher, and now Kelleher has begat Guero (I don’t know how to add the proper accent to the “u”). His introduction to to El Capitan, is perfunctory and brutal. He should carry no illusions about the assignment he has taken on. Then Guero descends deeper, physically and metaphorically, into the heart of… Continue reading Episode Eighteen

With Tommy gone, and the significant assistance of Ali, Meghan evolves from a rock and roll widow to a successful businesswoman and philanthropist. But there are rocks beneath the placid waters, and the partnership is headed straight for them. When Kelleher resurfaces, he has morphed into something less recognizable. After stops in Beirut, South Africa… Continue reading Episode Seventeen

We swap coasts one again, to find Meghan married, and moving into a new life with Tommy. Not much has changed, until Ali finds a Big Sur aerie for Meghan (and Tommy when he has time). For a while Tommy and Meghan lead a rock star marriage, separate but equal. Then comes a new opportunity… Continue reading Episode Sixteen

Like the monster in a bad horror film, Wequaquet rises from the dead to confrtont Kelleher. Confrontation leads to violence, violence leads to legal ramifications, and the date that never really was ends in disaster. So, it’s off to Fort Benning Georgia, and a stint in the Army, for which, attitudinally, Kelleher is singularly ill-equipped.… Continue reading Episode Fifteen