Domingo Garcia Duran is an ex-bullfighter from Mexico. He is extremely wealthy and he owns an estate in the Los Feliz hills as well as a ranch farther north. Duran has ties to the mafia and he is used to launder money. He is usually "clean," which means that he is not directly involved in drug deals. However, Duran has two kilos of cocaine lying around his house, which Kimberly Marsh steals with the help of her boyfriend Larry. Duran also is participating in a secret drug deal with a mafia associate. Duran has Ellen and her son Perry kidnapped to try to find the cocaine that was stolen from him. He also threatens Elvis and has Mort and Garrett Rice killed. In the end of the novel, Ellen shoots Duran to death, firing six bullets into him before he falls.