From #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach comes an
electrifying action-adventure tale set in the dangerous terrain of the
Tex-Mex borderland
In The Dead Run, outlaw with a conscience Jess Galvan made a devil's
bargain with El Cucuy, a fearsome, five-hundred-year-old Aztec priest
and crime kingpin determined to bring about hell on earth. Now, months
later, Galvan's mind is infested by the ancient monster. No longer able
to trust his own judgment, he is estranged from his daughter,
Sherry--and from his own body. But Cucuy's presence has endowed Galvan
with superhuman abilities.
Meanwhile, shell-shocked from her confrontation with Cucuy, Sherry is
living with Sheriff Bob Nichols and his girlfriend, psychologist Ruth
Cantwell. And in the bowels of Ojos Negros prison, a territory once
controlled by the ancient priest, the drug cartels are at war with one
another and on the hunt for Galvan.