Stephen Gaghan

This is a really short story - more of a vignette. However, the characters come alive right from the first page; true Zoe Sharp. It reminded me how much I love her writing!

It's the high-stakes, high-risk world of the drug trade as seen through the well-blended mix of interrelated stories: a Mexican policeman finds himself and hs partner caught in an often deadly web of corruption; a pair of DEA agents work undercover in a sordid and dangerous part of San Diego; a wealthy drug baron living in upscale, suburban America is arrested and learns how quickly his unknowing and pampered wife takes over his business; and the U.S. president's new drug czar must deal with show more his increasingly drug addicted teenage daughter. show less

Catherine Burke (Holmes) is under pressure. She faces exams, completion of her thesis, and a competitive interview process, all of which is compounded when a police detective, Wade Handler (Bratt), begins investigating the two year-old disappearance of her boyfriend, Embry Langan (Hunnam), a young man whose memory haunts and obsesses her. As the investigation continues, Catherine is forced to choose between her past passions and new possibilities, even as Handler is discovering surprising show more new facts about Embry and his possible connection to another disappearance from campus.

Katie Burke still has not recovered from her freshman romance 2 years earlier with Embry, and his mysterious disappearance still haunts her. The trail is cold, but detective Wade Handler enter Katie's chaotic campus life to put the pieces of Embry's vanishing and of his own life together. show less

great movie-- concerning court martial of Marine Colonel -- who was doing his job. Rated R 127 minutes