Though this is McGarrity’s tenth Kevin Kerney novel, McGarrity shows no signs of slowing down. This time, smarmy rodeo star-turned executive film producer Johnny Jordan, a boyhood friend of Kerney, approaches him and offers him a lucrative offer to serve as a technical advisor on a contemporary western being shot on the Mexican border. Kerney agrees, thinking the vacation will be good for him, his wife Sara (a Lt. Colonel in the US Army), and their precocious three-year-old son Patrick, but when Sara is called to Ireland to track down a notorious gem smuggler and wartime deserter, Kevin is saddled with his child alone. Of course, things take a turn for the worse when a dead body is found on the border, and Kerney finds himself embroiled in a federal investigation along with Johnny Jordan’s troublesome behavior, all while his wife Sara finds herself at the center of a dangerous Pentagon plot.