Thomas Nichols

Multiple award-winning author Thomas J. Nichols continues his fact-based accounts of the Border War Series with We Were Young Once following the success of Color of the Prism, this second in the series continues the Castenada/Basurto families’ dedication of stemming the flood of human and drug trafficking. Centered in the near ghost town of Hachita, New Mexico, We Were Young Once, brings the listener into the Chihuahua desert where the federal/state task force comes face-to-face with the victims and perpetrators of the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels.

In The Russian, New Mexico State Trooper Enrique (Ricky) Basurto joins other local, state, and federal agents in the Multi-Agency Human and Controlled Substance Interdiction Task Force. Focused along the desolate NM Hwy. 9 from Columbus to Animas, Ricky and his colleagues face the dangers of the powerful cartels, their heavily armed militias, the Russian Mafia, and the innocent men, women, and children who are their victims.