The place: Austin, Texas.
In hair-raising det.
Violence--savage, bloody, and full of rage--intervened.
Mirabelle arrived in the capital city to speak to the state legislature about her initiatives to boost its economy while the peso was in free fall, but she never got to deliver that speech.
The heroine of Blood on the Threshold , Mirabelle Garrett, was the director of economic development for a U.
S.-Mexico border town in the southwest corner of the state.
The date: April 6, 1983.
The place: Austin, Texas