"Mackie dreaded the mail." From the simple beginning, Peter Abrahams
opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a
world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on
a relentless collision course, a desert world that rises to the mythic
in Their Wildest Dreams. The suspense will grab you and not let you go,
the surprises will shock you, but in the end it will be the wonderful
characters who remain in your mind. Characters like Mackie Larkin, a
suburban mother desperate for money, who finds she can earn it as a
stripper; Kevin Larkin, her ex-husband whose get-rich-quick schemes left
her with a mountain of debt, and who now dreams up an even better one;
Lianne, their beautiful, impulsive teenage daughter, for whom almost
anything, even bank robbery, is possible; Jimmy Marz, the wrangler
Lianne loves, who gets a dangerous one-time offer that could take him to
the life he's always wanted; Buck Samsonov, the charismatic strip-club
owner building a southwestern empire in the lawless style of a
nineteenth-century robber baron; Clay Krupsha, a twenty-first century
captain of detectives in a border town where no crime is what it seems;
and Nicholas Loeb, a struggling mystery writer whose encounter with an
unstable muse entangles him in a web of true crime more mysterious than
anything he imagined.
