In this book, the American Southwest is a broken wasteland, where rejects, killers and people with too much history hide out, hoping the past doesn't catch up. Sheriff Holland is a good man trying to make sense of the world around him as the bodies pile up when a former weapons maker for the CIA is kidnapped by former Mexican soldiers who worked for the US government. The man ends up in the care of a mass murderer who prefers to use a Tommy gun to mow his victims down. Part McCarthy, part Faulkner, the violence is punctuated by breathtaking descriptions of the landscape.
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