http://www.amazon.com/Plundering-Till-Border-Mystery-ebook/dp/B009LTC0BI
Plundering the Till takes place in and around San Miguel, Texas, a small border town where even the horses are corrupt, and in Guatemala, Central America, where citizens have endured corruption for centuries. Ty Betancourt, a newspaper reporter and former Peace Corp volunteer, wants to fight the corruption, while friends Phil Strias and wife Aidé fear for his life. Their struggle takes them on a harrowing ride, enduring the political assassination of a brother-in-law in Guatemala and a threat against Ty's life in South Texas. They meet Sheriff Horace P. Shaw, a "muy hombre" from the old days who used to get drunk in the cantinas and beat up Mexicans, then throw them in jail and rape their wives, Mayor Rolando de la Cruz who rejects a bid to renovate the golf course with the words, "¿No huevos? OK, forget it. This conversation never happened," and Dwayne McGowin, a former cop, one of the most sinister characters in all of literature, a player on both sides of the border. Animals play roles in the drama: the sexual frenzy of wasps, the ritual killing of an opossum, and most of all, the relentless destruction of life-giving trees and bushes by voracious leaf-cutter ants. From the legend of Sancho, a brush salesman who cuckolds half the men in town, to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, the most sacred image in Central America, Plundering the Till treats the reader to a world tainted with crime yet filled with virtue.
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Ken Brimhall
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