Book excerpt: The latest in a series of unsolved homicides in South El Paso in 1953 leads Detective Vincent Quiones to and beyond a shadowy legend of gold and treachery during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The strange facets of the case become more troubling for Detective Quiones as his suspicions grow of a secret relationship between his former lover and a fellow detective and the deeply disturbing possibility of their involvement in the latest murder. Detective Quiones lonely pursuit of the truth will take him down the dark backstreets and alleys of the city where the answers hit hard and come at a price much greater than the legendary gold.