Beasts of the Field

<p><strong>When war-torn photographer Robert Ellis publishes a photo that leads to a man's death he is forcibly drawn into a Cartel boss's violent Central American Underworld. When it turns out the dead man is the boss's son Robert Ellis must either find a way out or pay with his own life. </strong></p><p><br></p><p>Robert Ellis sees images--a hula-hoop glittering in the center lane of a Utah highway a soldier kneeling in a field of Afgan poppies. It is 2009 when the young photojournalist arrives in the Republic of Nicoya a backwater nation in Central America to sell a single exposure to a private collector. Disillusioned by hi profession and perhaps the ethos of his country Ellis leaves behind a moment in American history overshadowed by war and recession carrying the hope of receiving recognition for his word. Instead he finds himself stalked by an ex-CIA counterinsurgent as he's inexorably drawn into a violent crime network. Beasts of the Field is a novel marked by visions and trauma a harrowing ride through animal and human nature.</p><p><br></p><p>When artistic ambition leads a young photographer into the dark underworld of dogfighting a plot of gruesome vengeance is set into motion. Alex Webb Wilson draws from the traditions of Cormac McCarthy Horace McCoy and Paul Bowles to give us a singular novel of vivid hallucinatory violence. Brutal Beautiful and damn near impossible to put down.</p><p>-Lee Clay Johnson author of <em>Nitro Mountain</em></p><p><br></p><p><em></em>An engrossing novel filled with political and psychological insight. Get it!</p><p><br></p><p><em>-Kirkus Reviews</em></p><p><br></p><p>Alex Webb Wilson Renders his characters as complete familiar frightening worlds--each hurtling toward a massive collision. In the debris the reader is left with the detritus of our world both terrible and true.</p><p><br></p><p>-Kimball Taylor author of <em>The Coyote's Bicycle</em></p>