Taking us from the turn of the twentieth century to our present day, from the impoverished streets of rural Mexico to the manicured lawns of suburban Connecticut, from the hot and dusty air of an isolated ranch to New York City in the wake of 9/11, Philip Caputo gives us an impeccably crafted story about three generations of an Arizona family forced to confront the violence and loss that have become its inheritance.When Gil Castle loses his wife in...

Lydia Quixano Perez runs a bookstore in Acapulco. There are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, but Lydia's life is, by and large, comfortable. When Lydia's journalist husband's tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and her family soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. Lydia soon sees that everyone is...

Settling into a 1940s Mexico town, a young drifter becomes a dog fighter under the thumb of a corrupt entrepreneur and faces a difficult choice when he befriends an elderly poet and falls in love with an innocent woman.

After the near-fatal shooting of a former police academy classmate and an encounter with Sister Anselm, who is acting as a patient advocate for a woman who was savagely attacked by a drug cartel, Ali Reynolds is determined to seek justice in both cases.

Texas Rangers Andy Pickard and Farley Brackett are assigned to an understaffed Ranger company along the Nueces Strip, a bit of desert fought over by Mexican rancher Guadalupe Chavez and Texas land baron Jericho Jackson, and they quickly realize that keeping these enemies apart will be a deadly job. Andy and Farley try desperately to stop the killings but are hampered by a commander who'd rather just let both sides kill each other off. As ambushes...