Off The Well-Lit Path

2019 FINALIST AMERICAN FICTION AWARD2019 WINNER NYC BIG BOOK AWARDOCTOBER 2019 U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT TRAVEL ADVISORY: SINALOA MEXICO Murder carjacking kidnapping extortion and robbery are widespread. Criminal organizations are based and operating in Sinaloa state. Local law enforcement has limited capability to respond to violence. The U.S. government has limited ability to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens. DO NOT TRAVEL.Bob Rugg an American tourist traveling in Mexico with his teenage daughter is carjacked by a marauding band of gunmen. He is shot left for dead his daughter abducted. Rugg awakens in a local hospital with an amputated foot no money and no trace of his daughter. His search to find her sets in motion a chain of violence that blurs the line between what a man does in the name of redemption and what he does for revenge.