Right as Rain Chapter 5

Chapter 5 of Right as Rain focuses on Ray Boone. Ray and his father Earl Boone are heroin distributors for the Vargas cartel, running product from their home in Montgomery County into dealers in Washington DC. They head off on a delivery run.

Characters

 * Ray Boone
 * Earl Boone - Ray's father
 * Edna Loomis - Ray's girlfriend
 * Roberto Mantilla - Ray's hispanic prison buddy and cousin to the Rodriguez brothers. Killed in prison following Ray's release.
 * Nestor Rodriguez - Vargas cartel heroin distributor. Lizardo's brother.
 * Lizardo Rodriguez - Vargas cartel heroin distributor. Nestor's brother.

Locations

 * Boone's bar - set back off Route 28, between Dickerson and Comus, not too far south of Frederick, at the east-central edge of Montgomery County.
 * Hagerstown - prison where Ray did 10 years for manslaughter.

Organisations

 * Christian Identity - a prison gang
 * Vargas cartel - drug cartel with ties to the Boone family

Cultural references

 * Randy Travis plays on the Boone's Wurlitzer jukebox
 * Ray drinks Jack Daniels
 * Ray takes Crank
 * The Boone's have a Colt automatic hung on nails behind the bar
 * Profiler - Edna thinks Ray looks like the actor from the series who always plays drug dealers in the movies.
 * Hopped-up Ford Taurus - Ray's car, has a larger engine than is legal and a false bumper.
 * F-150 pickup - Earl's truck
 * Shovelhead Harley - Ray's bike
 * Beretta - Ray's gun