There’s Menardo, a Mexican insurance company owner who’s becoming increasingly paranoid and delusional as unrest grows in Chiapas. There’s Trigg, who’s paralyzed below the waist and pressing homeless men into service of his developing blood-donation and organ-harvesting business. border who are involved in an array of bizarre and macabre dealings. From there we are introduced to more characters on both sides of the Mexican-U.S. Sterling becomes a hired hand and Seese becomes a nurse and a secretary helping Lecha translate an ancient document. Sterling and Seese eventually come to live on Lecha’s ranch, where Lecha lives with her twin sister, Zeta, and her drug- and gun-running son, Ferro. She has seen on a daytime television program a woman named Lecha who uses ancient magical powers to locate the missing and the dead. He ends up in Tucson at the same time as Seese, a cocaine-addled ex-stripper who’s searching for her kidnapped infant son. It starts with Sterling, a middle-aged former railroad worker who’s been banished from his reservation for failing to prevent a Hollywood crew from filming a sacred site. The energy is channeled through an accumulation of short chapters that jump around through time and place and include an ever-broadening and increasingly seedy cast of characters.
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