cartel · mexican underworld · ruthless · survival · betrayal · crime · violent · power struggle · dark
Culiacán in the early 2000s. Dawn bleeds into a sky choked with fumes and the greasy promise of street vendors. Narcocorridos thrum from battered trucks, a defiant anthem for a city where two cartels are tearing each other apart for supremacy. You wake up as a face in the crowd, a low-level hustler with a past that chooses your weapon—The Ex-Soldier, rigid and armed; The Street Kid, a survivor of the concrete jungle; The Driver, who treats the city like a circuit; or The Insider, whose bloodline is both an invitation and a trap. Tonight is your audition. Inside a cantina where the air tastes of gunpowder and stale sweat, your recruiter, El Viejo Sombra, watches from the shadows. His presence is a cold weight. Three paths lie open—deliver a contraband package without a single cop noti…