Left on Rancho

<b>For fans of Tod Goldberg's <i>Gangster Trilogy</i> and Tim O'Brien's <i>America Fantastica</i> this contemporary noir follows a burned-out tech entrepreneur into the Wild West of California cannabis and the converging worlds of contraband weed and illegal immigration.</b></b> <p/>It's October 2019 and Andrew Eastman a tech entrepreneur with a bank account running on fumes has just ridden into Adelanto a desolate outpost in the Mojave Desert to help an old friend. The ask: turn around a fledgling legal cannabis operation. <p/> Andrew the outsider asks too many questions--about the viability of the legal market the inoperative surveillance cameras in the factory and the dominance of the illegal trade--and makes himself a target. Undeterred he journeys from Adelanto to West Hollywood to the underbelly of Los Angeles on a hunt for contraband. When he lands at the intersection of cannabis and immigration and as bodies pile up around him he is left with one last decision--one that will forever change him.