Ricochet

<p>In South Texas they call it Valley Justice ... a complicated and dangerous thing as Nathaniel Longfellow Keller soon discovers. Nate as his few friends call him is a veteran of Vietnam a divorced alcoholic tentatively building a new life. He is tasked with seeing that a corrupt district attorney Edgar McKenzie is disbarred for the crime of soliciting murder - and it's all on tape in the hands of the F.B.I. But McKenzie is a local kingpin with many friends in high - as well as low places. When the person who McKenzie wanted killed turns up murdered after all it's left to Nate Keller to untangle the case. And then McKenzie himself is shot dead in his jail cell. It turns out that McKenzie had enemies as well as friends. But who would prove to be more dangerous? Nate Keller teams up with F.B.I Agent Tom Hatch and a maverick Mexican police captain on a dangerous mission that imperils the life of the woman whom Nate loves!</p>