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Federal immigration agents arrive in Santa Fe and begin detaining and deporting those suspected of being immigrants. In response, the city erupts in partisan violence, with mobs of protestors taking to the streets and counter-protestors voicing their support for immigration control. One particularly zealous anti-immigrant vigilante resorts to fire-bombing local businesses that employ immigrants. Former Santa Fe Police detective Fernando Lopez agrees to help find the arsonist even though he resents being drawn into politics. The situation worsens when a gunman begins shooting at the homes of Santa Fe City Council candidates who welcome immigrants to Santa Fe, which ends in a bloody shootout where Lopez and the shooter are both wounded. However, the real shock comes when Lopez and the city learn who hired and paid the shooter.

Emeritus Professor of English and Journalism at the University of Cincinnati, James C. Wilson lived in Santa Fe in the 1970s and wrote for the Santa Fe New Mexican and the Santa Fe Reporter. He has lived in Albuquerque since 2012. He is the author of twenty-three previous books, including Hiking New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon: The Trails, The Ruins, The History; Santa Fe, City of Refuge: An Improbable Memoir of the Counterculture and New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon: Photographing the Ancient City, in addition to Peyote Wolf, Smokescreen, Ghost Canyon, The Dead Go Fast, Painted Skull Ranch, Taos Gothic, Devil on Canyon Road, Taos Vendetta, Pecos Reckoning, The Witchcraft Murders, Santa Fe Assassin, A Death Demanded, Stealing the Hopi Snake Dance, Breaking the Peyote Circle, and Dancing with Dennis Hopper’s Ghost in the Fernando Lopez Santa Fe Mystery Series. He teaches a Mystery Writing Workshop at the downtown Santa Fe Public Library.

Softcover:
6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-63293-803-9
248 pp.,$26.95

eBook:
ISBN: 978-1-61139-802-1
248 pp.,$4.99