T Jefferson Parker

Iron River T Jefferson Parker

Publisher Marketing: On a dusty highway just north of the United States/Mexico border, a man named Mike Finnegan is struck by a fast-moving vehicle and flung into the desert. Miraculously, he survives and winds up in a hospital in the tiny border town of Buenavista, seemingly in full possession of his faculties including the eerie ability to understand events happening well outside the view from his hospital bed. Charlie Hood joins a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms task force patrolling the iron river, where illegal guns flow from United States dealers to the Mexican drug business. Hood is part of a stakeout team when a federal officer s bullet kills an innocent boy. The boy happens to be the son of Benjamin Armenta, head of the Gulf Cartel and one of the most violent men in the world. Armenta s thirst for vengeance even in routine business matters is well known. His hired killers are credited with many of the murders and beheadings of the fifteen thousand people who have died in the cartel wars along the border in recent years. Hood and ATF brace themselves for brute vengeance. As this unthinkable violence leaks from Mexico into the United States, and as Finnegan s predictive powers become even stranger and stronger, Charlie Hood works to understand the mysterious forces fighting for control of this tiny border town, forces that may have the power to slow the iron river and to save the ATF men he has come to think of as his brothers." Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 01/16/2011 pg. 20 (EAN 9780451232427, Paperback) Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2009 pg. 58 (EAN 9780525951490, Hardcover) Booklist 11/01/2009 pg. 4 (EAN 9780525951490, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 11/16/2009 pg. 35 (EAN 9780525951490, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2009 (EAN 9780525951490, Hardcover) Library Journal Annex 12/10/2009 (EAN 9780525951490, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Parker, T Jefferson T. Jefferson Parker is the bestselling author of seventeen novels, including the Edgar(R) Award winners California Girl and Silent Joe. Alongside Dick Francis and James Lee Burke, he is one of only three writers who has won the Edgar(R) Award for Best Novel more than once. Parker lives with his family in Southern California. Contributor Bio:  Colacci, David David Colacci has worked as a narrator for over fifteen years, during which time he has won "AudioFile" Earphones Awards, earned Audie nominations, and been included on Best of Year lists by such publications as "Publishers Weekly", "AudioFile" magazine, and "Library Journal".