Pre-WW1 historical fiction thriller as the old west collides with the Industrial Revolution, global politics of conquest and pure greed. The border was fraught with death and espionage even in 1914. A reluctant Tejano hero rises to oppose the ruthless Texas Rangers used as weaponized land thieves for the white wealthy ranchers, and in the process helps thwart the Germans plans to pay Mexico to invade the US to keep them out of the Great War in Europe.