Spiral — David L. Lindsey

THE CORPSE LAY IN THE DRY HEAT OF THE HOUSTON MORNING SUN, INSIDE THE GATES OF A CRUMBLING MANSION. A SPIKE HAD BEEN DRIVEN INTO THE SKULL...

For Detective Stuart Haydon, it was the sign of Los Tecos, a Latin-American death squad sworn to political assassination. Step by bloody step, Haydon stalks the fanatics into a vicious web of mutilation, torture and murder. From the gleaming boulevards of the super-rich to the slime and stench of the barrio, Houston is erupting in a grisly underworld slaughter--Latin-style. When Haydon's partner is killed in the crossfire, he stops playing by the rules-and descends into a morass of greed, corruption and betrayal only the most brutal, the most cunning, can survive.