Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney is back in the tenth and most entertaining novel in Michael McGarrity\'s acclaimed mystery series.
He has also served as an instructor at the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy and as an investigator for the New Mexico Public Defender\'s Office..
A former deputy sheriff for Santa Fe County, he established the first Sex Crimes Unit.
About the Author: Michael McGarrity is author of the Anthony Award-nominated Tularosa , Mexican Hat , Serpent Gate , Hermit\'s Peak , The Judas Judge , Under the Color of Law , and The Big Gamble .
Packed with family secrets, international intrigue, and memorable characters, this is McGarrity\'s most ambitious and involving novel to date-- traveling an accelerating arc from Santa Fe to the desert grasslands and mountains of the Bootheel, to the most secret levels of the Pentagon, to a resort town on the coast of Ireland, and back to an adrenaline-charged climax on a desolate landing strip a few miles north of the Mexican border.
As separate investigations embroil them in circumstances that will forever change their lives, Kerney must care for Patrick while Sara plays a dangerous game of Pentagon politics.
But, a dead man on the road near an isolated border crossing, a federal undercover investigation into immigrant smuggling, the search for a fugitive from military justice hiding somewhere in Europe, and Johnny Jordan\'s troublesome behavior all ensure that Nothing goes as planned.
Colonel Sara Brannon, and their three-year-old son, Patrick.
Kerney agrees and plans a working vacation on location, in a remote area of the state known as the Bootheel, with his wife, Lt.
After years away on the pro rodeo circuit, Johnny Jordan struts into Santa Fe to ask his boyhood friend, Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney, to serve as a technical advisor on a contemporary Western movie to be filmed along the Mexican border.
Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney is back in the tenth and most entertaining novel in Michael McGarrity\'s acclaimed mystery series
