Bücher von Virgil Alexander

Intrigue and murder along the US/Mexico Border. Seventeen-year-old Mariana Villalobos' mystic gift creates a sensation in northern Mexico as hundreds of people undergo a personal religious epiphany. Even gangsters reject crime. Seeing revenues tumble in the drug trade, the Liones cartel issues a hit order on the girl. The Mexican police hide Mariana in the Gila Valley of Arizona while they work with a defector and international law enforcement to dismantle the gang. Graham County Deputies Bren Allred and Manny Sanchez join forces with San Carlos Apache Tribal Policeman Al Victor to identify assassins and protect Mariana. It's a race against time for agents of the DEA, ICE, Spanish Policia National, and the Mexican Policia Judicial. Can they bring the Liones cartel to justice before the girl is harmed?

International intrigue, an enigmatic murder, substance abuse, vengeful stalking, undercover police work, and their effect on families, are all woven through this story set in the American Southwest. Sergeant Allred must deal with all this while keeping it from Monica who is having a troubled pregnancy. Deputies Sanchez and Haley are undercover investigating copper theft, and unknowingly espionage. Apache police Sergeant Victor is plagued by his own devil's as he deals with his rage over murder by a diplomat, and the ever present problem of alcohol on the reservation.

An inexplicable murder of a young Apache boy draws Deputy Bren Allred and Apache Tribal Policeman Victor into a mystery that can only be solved when they tie the murder to a century old robbery of Army Paymaster Major Wham. Set in both the old West and today's ranch country, the story explores the natural and cultural history, and people of the contemporary rural southwest.