Format: Hardcover; Publisher: Dutton; Release Date: 2012; ISBN: 9780525952572; List Price: $26.95; Length: 358 pages; Series: Charlie Hood (#5). Condition: Good. Former library book, but without library binding. Has stamped first blank page and library sticker opposite dedication page, but otherwise shows no signs of being a circulating copy. Has minor damage inside both front and back cover. Jacket is glued to cover and is still in overall good shape. Binding is intact, and pages are unmarked. Same cover design as that shown here.

Synopsis:
Erin McKenna, a beautiful songwriter married to a crooked Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy, is kidnapped by Benjamin Armenta, the ruthless leader of the powerful Gulf Cartel. But his demands turn out to be as unusual as the crumbling castle in which Erin is kept. She is ordered to compose a unique narcocoriddo, a modern-day folk ballad of the kind that have recorded the exploits of the drug dealers, gunrunners, and outlaws who have highlighted Mexican history for generations. Under threat of death, Armenta orders Erin to tell his life story--in music--and write "the greatest narcocorrido of all time". Allowed to wander the dark hallways of the castle retreat with only a guitar and a mysterious old priest to keep her company, Erin must produce the most beautiful song that these men have ever heard. As the mesmerizing music and lyrics of Erin's song cascade from the jungle hideout, they serve as a siren song to the two men who love Erin: her outlaw husband Bradley Smith, and the lawman Charlie Hood--two men who together have the power to rescue her. Here, amid the ancient beauty and haunted landscape of the Yucatecan lowlands, the long-simmering rivalry between these men will be brought closer to its explosive finale. T. Jefferson Parker, who is widely hailed as his generation's most accomplished and talented crime novelist, delivers a crime thriller that dramatically redefines the landscape of the cartel wars as an epic clash of good and evil.

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