RIDE the WILD WIND

RIDE the WILD WIND -Sheriff Robert Gallegos - Friends and Enemies: #1 of a series. Genre: historical fictionrural southwestern mystical realism; time: mid 1960's flashbacks to WWII; location: fictional Aragon Valley New Mexico along the Rio Grande close to El Paso Texas & the Juarez Mexico border; readership: Adults; Tony Hillerman (rural N. New Mexico Navajo law keepers); Craig Johnson (Sheriff Longmire rural Montana). Sheriff Rob tall handsome strong quiet friendly Native American/Hispanic/ & who knows what 40 something ex WWII Marine Sgt is determined Colt .38 at his side Winchester in his Sheriff-emblemed truck that the Juarez Mexico crime cartel stopping at nothing to take over his Valley - will not on his watch succeed. But robbery broken windows rape and murder invade like poison weeds. He and his WWII ex Marine lawman friends - Santa Fe El Paso even Juarez begin to uncover something even more ominous. No paid deputies office next to his two person jail cell apartment above that as many friends as enemies. he meets over coffee at Connelly's Cafe a Lucky Lager at Sam's Tavern's Friday night dances shares a sixties smoke at Tim Sanderson's Thursday night poker game. Tim boards & gentles horses Phillipe Montez runs his Basque father's Red Stones Vineyards & Winery. Together the three 'musketeers;' share a bloody secret unknown to even la Senora Bella Aragón or her beautiful granddaughter Lara both of whom rule the town founded by their ancestors from Aragón Spain. A man's manduty first love where it finds him companion is Old Lady Sara Tree-Root Tampoya part-Hopi Medicine Woman communicator with Grey Lady Between the Mountains bringer of passages of life and of death he struggles to stay centered in the present decipher the past understand who he really is. The wild red-dust wind gallops day and night along Main Street; male monsoon rains flood the Rio Grande threatening the vineyards & everyone including the sheriff has both a love and loss back-story memories & secrets. All shades hippies & lovers are welcome in the born multicultural county but crime cartels real estate developers & Nazis are not. While romantic relationship tends to elude Rob; mystery crime standoffs sensuality abound. Story is his but as much he would tell you the story is his valley's A Cast of Characters research information & Spanish language words and conversations translations are provided