**In this "captivating" crime novel (People), Texas Ranger Darren
Mathews is on the hunt for a missing child -- but it's the boy's family
of white supremacists who are his real target.
**9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now
he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor
just died. A sudden noise distracts him - and all goes dark.
Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after
the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a
precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie in
the hands of his mother, who's never exactly had his best interests at
heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's not above a
little maternal blackmail to press her advantage.
An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down
Highway 59, in a small lakeside town where the local economy thrives on
nostalgia for ante-bellum Texas - and some of the era's racial attitudes
still thrive as well. Levi's disappearance has links to Darren's last
case, and to a wealthy businesswoman, the boy's grandmother, who seems
more concerned about the fate of her business than that of her grandson.
Darren has to battle centuries-old suspicions and prejudices, as well as
threats that have been reignited in the current political climate, as he
races to find the boy, and to save himself.
A Best Book of the Year
New York Times**Houston ChronicleNPRWall Street JournalMilwaukee
Journal-SentinelBook PageFinancial TimesKirkusSheReadsSunday
TimesLitHubGuardianBook RiotSouth Florida Sun Sentinel*Longlisted
for the Orwell Political Fiction Book Prize**
