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Jack Lacy, a decorated Marine sniper now working as a professional assassin, arrives in Santa Fe with a contract to kill a government official. When the hit has to be cancelled, the employer demands that Lacy return the sizeable advance he was given. Lacy refuses. In response, Lacy's employer contracts Silva Archivada, the head of the Sinaloa Cartel in New Mexico, to force Lacy to return the advance or face the consequences. Private Investigator Fernando Lopez finds himself drawn into the bloody war that develops between Lacy and the Sinaloa Cartel in the streets of Santa Fe.
About the author
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 nineteen 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 and The Witchcraft Murders in the Fernando Lopez Santa Fe Mystery Series.
