Hidden in the suspenseful novel of Crossing The Line by Clinton McKinzie is the argument of good people doing bad things, and people being flat out evil.The main characters Roberto and his brother Antonio are stuck between a rock and a hard spot. Roberto is/was involved in one of the biggest Cartels in Mexico.. the Juarez Cartel which works for the Mexican Mafia. His brother Antonio is a cop working with the FBI to try to catch the drug lord, Jesus Hidalgo, whom his brother, Roberto works for. As a plea bargain to get out of prison, the FBI agents use Roberto as bait to try and catch the drug lord. The major question is what makes good people do bad things? Roberto described by his brother sounds like a good person, he grew up in a well family, with good parents, and pretty much able to do whatever he wanted. Then he got into shooting up and drugs and then took it a step further and started selling them. Being a good kid and raised right, why spiral into a world of drugs, murder, hate, and traders? Maybe because he struggles with himself, or with others outside his life and his escape root is drugs.
Can people just be flat out evil? Looking at Jesus Hidalgo a murderous drug lord who uses kids to smuggle drugs into schools, and ruins lives of innocent children make him evil? Smuggling drugs into the states and ruining lives of families and people. Does this make him a pure evil person? Or does he do these things because he was born into it, and drugs is all he knows? Or does he do it to support a family that is incapable of supporting themselves? Or is he a murderer, drug user, and seller.. for his own selfish greed and habit? In the store so far it sounds like he does these things just for his own selfish geed and habit... but here is always more to the story then what it seems.
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