Santa Muerte that is. The very old, very new Mexican saint of death who's replaced the Virgin Mary for a good chunk of a downtrodden Meso-American population.
In the fourth installment of the Peter Pike private eye series, Pike takes a break from his pregnant girlfriend Greta and domesticity to visit an old National Guard buddy in Mexico City. Tom's gotten himself mixed up with strange folks with strange beliefs and stranger drugs promising eternal life, throwing Pike in the mix. Narcotraficantes track Pike back to his home in St. Baarlam. Now Pike must save his family from both Mexican and American drug cartels, Santa worshippers, and worst of all, Loca-Cola executives.