Up Against the Wall You Spic Bastard

Blonde, brilliant, and highly moral, Julie Wellington has spent her whole life being groomed to win the Nobel Prize in medicine. She's also spent most of it longing for Rudy Garcia, the handsome and charming son of an impoverished illegal Mexican immigrant.

Rudy's mother worked for Julie's father-and was subjected to years of sexual abuse and mistreatment at his hands. Rudy had vowed to kill this man one day, until he fell in love with Julie, who is nothing like her father and finds his anti-Mexican sentiments repugnant.

After spending years apart, secretly longing for each other, Julie enlists Rudy to help her discover who is behind the grisly murders of her top research fellows. Rudy brings in a host of top-notch investigators, including a sexy former CIA spy, causing a jealous streak to flare-up in the already married Julie.

Mixing elements of classic detective novels with a story of star-crossed lovers, "Up against the Wall You Spic Bastard" shines a light on the myriad ways racial prejudice and unjust immigration policy affect people from every stratum of society and walk of life.