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2023 FINALIST, PEACEMAKER AWARD OF WESTERN FICTIONEERS2023 FINALIST, WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARD
It's 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no greater than the one inside newspaper reporter Jack Landon. Disillusioned, he flees down the road to nowhere and finds himself in Esperanza. Populated by people of Mexican heritage, the small village on the Texas bank of the Rio Grande is a target of Texas Rangers Company B, which unjustly considers it a bandit den.
Jack befriends a teenaged boy and his adult sister, Mary, who teaches in the Esperanza school. As Jack assimilates to life in Esperanza, the threat of Rangers looms large. Eventually a day of reckoning descends, and it envelops Jack and Mary and the entire village.
This novel is based on what actually happened at Porvenir, Texas, on January 28, 1918-the darkest moment in Texas Rangers history.
A propos de l'auteur
A member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, Patrick Dearen is the author of twenty-seven books. His ten nonfiction works include A Cowboy of the Pecos, The Last of the Old-Time Cowboys, and Saddling Up Anyway: The Dangerous Lives of Old-Time Cowboys. His research has led to seventeen novels, including The Big Drift, winner of the Spur Award of Western Writers of America. His other novels include When Cowboys Die (a Spur Award finalist), Perseverance, When the Sky Rained Dust, The Illegal Man, To Hell or the Pecos, Dead Man's Boot, Apache Lament, Haunted Border, and The End of Nowhere.A ragtime pianist and wilderness enthusiast who has summited Mount Livermore (Baldy Peak), Dearen lives with his wife, Mary, in Texas. See patrickdearen.com for more information.
