Böcker av Ernest Brawley

In the year 1880, an impoverished, half-English journalist named Eduardo Dawson, hitching from Mexico for the American border, meets three fellow travelers who could not be more different. The first is Phoebe Surgener, a wry, strong-willed American ranch lady of obvious wealth and influence. The second is Pleasant Honeyflower, a seedy, fast-talking phony preacher. The third is Marcela Sandoval, a magically beautiful Mexican shepherdess. After their meeting on the road, there follows a seemingly endless night that begins with friendly "get-to-know-you" chatter and evolves as they cross the desert under a great blood moon into episodes of passionate young love, depraved sexual violence, betrayal, and abandonment that will have unimaginable repercussions for years to come. As fate will have it, they all end up in Pleasant Valley, Arizona, and their chance encounter in the desert will turn out to be a harbinger of The Pleasant Valley War, the bloodiest land war in the history of the American West.

Raised in a dysfunctional family, on the grounds of a state prison in the Mojave Desert, redheaded Ruby Rose takes nightly flights of fancy, sailing over the mountains, into the dream world of Hollywood, where she reigns amid the stars.

This novel takes place in New York City, during the 1970s, when crime and drugs ruled the streets. Much of its action occurs in a renowned drug rehab center called "Streetlight."

This novel takes place during the '70s violent and "secret war" at an American CIA firebase in Laos, run by a brutal commander, Jimmy Love. Seasoned Special Ops agent, Zack Ogle, and beautiful Laotian doctor fall madly in love.