Description
Gastner's capabilities are plausible for a septuagenarian, and Havill peoples the book with believable characters. --Publishers Weekly STARRED review
What do you do when you inherit $330 million after taxes? If you're New Mexico rancher Miles Waddell, you build a dream. Waddell's dream is NightZone, an astronomy-based theme park complete with giant radio telescope, a bank of smaller scopes linked to a theater, five-star dining in a restaurant with retracting dome ceiling, a hotel/resort, tram car access, and a narrow gauge steam locomotive to carry tourists to the mesa top.
But the dream becomes a nightmare when two eco-terrorists chain-saw down power lines that feed the development. One of them is killed by a bucking power pole; the other escapes by car. From 20 miles away, retired Posadas Sheriff William K. Gastner spots a pair of headlights as the dead man's companion speeds from the scene.
Soon charges include murder when the fleeing conspirator is stopped by a cop and guns the lawman down. Hours later Gastner stops to assist Sgt. Jackie Taber during an unrelated traffic stop, and 74-year-old Gastner becomes the focus of a second investigation by the District Attorney and Sheriff's Department.
Author: Steven Havill
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 10/01/2013
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.57w x 0.82d
ISBN13: 9781464200700
ISBN10: 146420070X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Police Procedural
- Fiction | Westerns | General
- Fiction | Crime
About the Author
Steven F. Havill is the author of 25 novels set in the American west. He lives near Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife Kathleen, a writer and artist. A dedicated high school teacher of high school biology and English by day Havill earned both his B.A. and M.A.from the University of New Mexico.