Rudolfo Anaya

Jemez Spring Rudolfo Anaya

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2005.; When the governor of New Mexico is found drowned in the Bath House at Jemez Springs, private eye Sonny Baca is called in to investigate. However, murder is just the beginning of a tangled web of intrigue the unravelling of which brings Sonny up against bombers, eco-activists, ghosts and corporate greed. Publisher Marketing: When the governor of New Mexico is found drowned in the Bath House at Jemez Springs, Albuquerque private eye Sonny Baca is called in to investigate. As he soon learns, murder is only the beginning of the evil that Sonny must sort out. Someone has planted a bomb in the Valles Caldera, not far from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and it is set to detonate in just a few hours. Is this the work of terrorists or is Sonny's old nemesis, Raven, mixed up in the plot?In a race against the clock Sonny encounters ghosts and sorcerers, beautiful women and environmental activists, and developers and politicians who are quarreling over the state's most precious resource, its water.

Contributor Bio:  Anaya, Rudolfo Rudolfo Anaya, widely acclaimed as one of the founders of modern Chicano literature, is professor emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico. He is best known for the classic Bless Me, Ultima.