Southwest Noir Tops Among Cops
Mining Sacred Ground wins third place at the highly competitive Public Safety Writer’s Association (PSWA) Conference during July in Las Vegas. PSWA is an association of police officers, police support, firefighters, fire support, emergency, security, and other personnel in the public safety field.
Mining Sacred Ground combines Southwest tradition and the modern soldiers’ code in the first of a series featuring former Marine and tribal policeman Peter Romero, a mix of Edward Abbey's frustrated idealist, George Hayduke, and Tony Hillerman's staunch traditionalist, Jim Chee.
To make sense of his lot, Romero must choose between the world he sees and the unseen universe of his ancestors. There, the old ones urge abandonment of the life of self for one of sacrifice. They command Romero to serve as protector of the lifeless and voiceless - become spirit warrior - a challenge Romero accepts to prevent his own world from falling apart. Romero is called to mete out justice while protecting a secret five hundred years old. He battles self-doubt, threats of divorce, hostile law enforcement, and a killer’s crosshairs through rugged Arizona backcountry.
Mining Sacred Ground serves full helpings of character, plot, and human interaction in a narrative that lurches into a narcotic desert nightscape. This novel and its follow-on, Poisoned by God’s Flesh, are available in ebook format at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, The Copia, Kobo, and iTunes.
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