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A Fistful of Pesos, the first in a six book series entitled "Common Criminals", is a cinematic, darkly humorous crime thriller.

Recently released from prison after serving seven years for dealing marijuana, American demolitions expert Zachary Taylor travels to Mexico City to help his old friend Pancho Sanchez and his motley gang rob a bank. However, the hapless would-be thieves arrive to find that another group of criminals has just robbed the same bank minutes earlier -- and they become trapped inside by the city police and the Mexican Army. Will they get out alive? Inspired by true events, believe it or not.


The second book, For a Few Pesos More, picks up mere hours after the disastrous bank robbery attempt, as Zach and Pancho aim to recoup their losses by kidnapping the daughter of a rich Mexican industrialist. But once again, things don’t go according to plan. Like the first book, it is fast-paced with plenty of black humor.


Jackson Ellis, editor-in-chief and publisher of Verbicide Magazine, had this to say about these books:

"The first novel is great, but this second one is simply fantastic. It moves along at a wonderful pace. It has one of the most interesting, twisting, unpredictable plots I’ve ever encountered. It has character development that is just deep enough, making the reader become emotionally invested in them, but also just superficial enough so that you aren't too bummed when horrible things go down. It's a great read for casual readers as well as bookworms -- accessible, but with substantial literary merit."

The remaining four books in the Common Criminals series take Zach and Pancho (plus their aging Communist sidekick Juan Gonzalez) all over the world, embroiling them in brutal, comical misadventures in the jungles of French Guiana, across the waters of the North Atlantic, and on the battlefields of Libya and Sudan.

The books in the series are as follows:

� A Fistful of Pesos and For a Few Pesos More: A disastrous bank robbery in Mexico City is followed by a botched kidnapping attempt.

� The Minimum Wages of Fear: In an effort to make easy money, the trio illegally transports trucks full of volatile rocket fuel through the harrowing tropical forests of French Guiana.

� Fight at the Top of the World: Zach, Pancho, and Juan are held hostage on an oil platform in the North Sea by a gang of multinational terrorists.

� The Dirty Half-Dozen: After escaping from terrorists, the criminals hunt for Gaddafi's gold during the Libyan Civil War.

� Red Sun of the Desert: Zach and his cohorts use an armored battle tank to protect Sudanese villagers from the predations of the Janjaweed in the War in Darfur.