Solar Eclipse
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Publisher Description
Shay Waco is a stuntwoman on her way home with her eleven-year-old daughter when a semi sends her car over an embankment. The two must jump nearly sixty feet, and crash through a nest of conifers, in order to escape. Bruised and bleeding, Shay walks with the girl until they discover a lone house. Planning to call for help, they break in, only to find a family sitting around a dinner table with bullets in their foreheads. As Shay fights to free herself from the web of money and drugs she's stumbled into, the killers close in. Only by relying on all of her skill and training will she be able to save her daughter and herself.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Inventive, sexy and intricately plotted, this latest thriller from the prolific (and curiously unheralded) Farris (Soon She Will Be Gone) keeps his work close to the top of the heap. Tobin Bonner, once a DEA agent, is now the sheriff of impoverished Solar County in the remote Four Corners region of Utah. Bonner falls hard for movie stuntwoman Shay Waco (the estranged daughter of star cowboy Silverwhip Jack) after watching Shay perform on the set of a Vegas shoot. Shay and her 11-year-old daughter Pepper are on their way home from Nevada, via Solar County, when a mysterious driver rams Shay's SUV, sending it over a cliff. Using her stunt skills, Shay saves Pepper's life. Mother and daughter flee to a nearby house, where they find a Latino family--all but the baby daughter--dead, apparent victims of a gangland murder. Sheriff Bonner investigates, and the list of suspects widens to include Mexican drug lords, a couple who train wild animals for movies, a chimerical wheeler-dealer and his horny wife, and the sexually ambiguous daughter of the founder of the Brightly Shining, a polygamous, chiliastic sect of rogue Mormons. Then Bonner's old enemy and ex-DEA sidekick, Dale Stearman, shows up with a busload of federal agents seeking a neutron bomb. And that's just the rim of the canyon. Farris finds room later on for more murder and oddball characters, steamy sex, kinky psychology, old blood feuds and a lode of local lore. Most thriller writers would consider such material too much for one book. Farris slips everything into place with ease, however, and his complex denouement is both easy to follow and superbly engrossing. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
