A brutal serial killer is stalking Texan cyberspace, selecting victims for a death so bloody it has earned the killer the media sobriquet “The Gynecologist”. Mac Benton, Inspector for the Texas division of the National Homicide Task Force, is the officer in charge of the investigation.
The detective’s sanity is at times borderline: tormented by the death of his wife and unborn son in an automobile accident, with the ghost of his former partner still inhabiting his office, his reality checks include Namath, his pet tortoise, and Thomas Burlington, Benton’s 105-year old former Texas Ranger mentor and father confessor. However, his new partner, Karen “Birdie” Falcone, and a woman named Juanita Cortesta threaten to complicate his life even further.
From the sophisticated city of Austin, through hundreds of miles of Texas nothingness, across the Rio Grande into the badlands of Mexico, Mesquite Smoke-Dance is an action-packed, non-stop journey with more twists than a sidewinder’s sand trail. Even O. Henry would have been proud of the ending