The Mexican Tree Duck

C.W. Sughrue has been sentenced to do business with the hardest cases in the new American West-and to locate a missing woman who has eluded the FBI, her well-connected Republican husband, and a group of South American cocaine dealers. With blood on his shoes-and the highway- Sughrue takes off on a cross-Western odyssey of sex and gunplay in the company of a beautiful undercover deputy, a ragged band of Vietnam buddies, and a young mother and her child. Caught in a war he doesn't understand, holding on to a hollowed-out figurine that means more than he can imagine, Sughrue is looking for someone who doesn't want to be found-and finding penitence for more than one man's sins.