"The most groundbreaking crime series in decades." --St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy Charlie Hood is attached to the ATF,
working undercover on the Iron River that flows across the U.S.-Mexican
border. The diamond fillings he wears in his left canine glimmer,
distracting the men who sell the illegal firearms that enable the
unspeakable violence on both sides of the map. Spotting the sparkle when
"Charlie Diamonds" opens his mouth is often their first step toward life
behind bars.
Meanwhile, Bradley Jones, sheriff's deputy and employee of the Baja
Cartel and son of the love of Charlie's life, the deceased L.A. outlaw
Suzanne Jones, is expecting a son of his own. Suzanne was descended from
famed Mexican desperado Joaquin Murrieta, whose embalmed head Bradley
inherited from her and keeps nestled among piles of cash, proceeds from
Bradley's own life of crime.
Charlie knows all of Bradley's secrets; the question is what will he do
with the information? Until he decides, his obsession remains the
inexplicable existence of Mike Finnegan, the diminutive devil who flits
in and out of both men's lives, knowing things he shouldn't, seemingly
immortal.
Three men--earnest law enforcer, inveterate lawbreaker, and the man who
pits them against each other--hurtle toward one another in the
jaw-dropping conclusion to T. Jefferson Parker's mesmerizing vision of
the border. Their climactic showdown brings to a spectacular close a
crime series that obliterated the boundaries of the genre.
