Mule (noun) slang: A person who is paid to transport illegal drugs for a dealer
Young Texan Cole is a mule for the cartels, running drugs and other contraband across the West Texas plains and through the border into Mexico.
When Hal, Cole's recently retired neighbour foolishly makes the decision to join him on a ride one day, the job goes terribly and unexpectedly wrong. Hal's young neighbour and accomplice is brutally executed by the Mexican runners and Hal barely makes it out of the desert shootout alive, injured and a hot target for the cartels.
But not only is it the ruthless Mexican cartels and drug crime lords that Hal has to fear, the DEA are on the case, as is a merciless and chilling hit-man.
...And amongst all of these horrors are buried the pressures and harsh realities of present day life in the barren wastelands of West Texas in the middle of the arrival of the cruelest heatwave.
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