"A richly imagined and terrifically realized novel...it rings as true as
the winter light across the southern desert." James Crumley
Circling buzzards lead U.S. Border Patrol agent Dolph Martinez to the
corpse of a man executed in the desert...a murder that shatters the
fragile calm in a dusty, Texas town. His investigation pits him against
the Mexican Army, the DEA, big-money Houston real estate interests, a
Catholic nun who practices voodoo, a charismatic revolutionary wanted on
both sides of the border, and perhaps deadliest of all, the demons from
his own, tortured past.
"Grit and grace in the face of troubling ambiguities in a moral
borderland." Publishers Weekly
"Sanderson makes the gritty, thankless landscape of the border come
alive, from the relentless heat to the failed hopes." The Washington
Post
"Lean and lyrical." The New York Times
"Sanderson is especially good at contrasting the clarity and austere
natural beauty of the Chihuahuan desert with the murky, Orson Welles
aura that envelopes human society there." Dallas Morning News