Bow Down At Black Mesa
(Book)

John Reno wiles away his days in the bush town of Cold Spring, New Mexico, in the arms of his girlfriend, Heather Swan, and in the company of a motley of comic losers and big-city refugees. When a stranger - and fugitive - takes the apartment across the hall from him in his residential hotel, his life changes forever. Seemingly innocuous, the new neighbor sits on a dark secret which his subsequent suicide does little to illuminate. What it does, however, is pique Reno's interest to the point of obsession. There are facts which just don't add up, and Reno hits the road to find out why.Drawn to Ft. Worth, Tulsa, and the Oklahoma Panhandle, Reno winds up waist-deep in an oil patch murder mystery, a family saga full of greed, revenge, incest and, in the end, heroism.