Publisher's Synopsis
Intrigue and murder along the US/Mexico Border Seventeen-year-old Mariana Villalobos' mystic gift creates a sensation in northern Mexico as hundreds of people undergo a personal religious epiphany. Even gangsters reject crime. Seeing revenues tumble in the drug trade, the Liones cartel issues a hit order on the girl. The Mexican police hide Mariana in the Gila Valley of Arizona while they work with a defector and international law enforcement to dismantle the gang. Graham County Deputies Allred and Sanchez join forces with San Carlos Apache Tribal Policeman Al Victor to identify assassins and protect Mariana. It's a race against time for agents of the DEA, ICE, Spanish Policia National, and the Mexican Policia Judicial. Can they bring the Liones cartel to justice before the girl is harmed? About the Author: Virgil Alexander was born and raised near Globe-Miami, Arizona. He grew up in the outdoors shooting, hunting, fishing, hiking Many members of his family were law officers. His neighbors were ranchers, miners, small town merchants and officials. His friends came from those families and included Hispanics, Apaches, and descendants of immigrants from all over Europe. These experiences are all reflected in his stories, mysteries set in small town and rural Arizona, often reflecting the natural and human history of the area. His first book, The Wham Curse, introduced Deputies Bren Allred and Manny Sanchez, and San Carlos Apache Tribal Policeman Al Victor, who are also the protagonists in Saints & Sinners and a third not yet completed mystery The Baleful Owl
