"A tremendous but final political thriller"
Chupadera County, New Mexico District Attorney Rick
Garcia is running for governor with his only blemish on a
squeaky clean record being his wife's suicide. Even when
campaigning for public office, Will has always run a clean
race, but state office may be too difficult to avoid the
mudslinging. His campaign manager Ashley McCarver greatly
cherishes Rick's honesty though she wonders if he is too
naïve to win. However, his integrity turns Ashley's
admiration of his character into much more and they soon
become lovers. However, Rick's past as an idealistic prosecutor may
cause him more problems than just impeachment if he wins
the governor's race. Rick successfully won a manslaughter
case involving the deaths of children drinking water
poisoned by a local mining operation. His former college
football teammate Stanford Brown went to prison for the
crime and vows revenge. Only politically savvy Ashley
might save Rick's reputation from the scandal that Stanford
has raised as a cornerstone of a terror campaign. The late Norman Zollinger pays homage to himself and
his fans with a tremendous final political thriller. The
story line centers on a protagonist with strong ethics
struggling against a tsunami of people whose value focuses
on the bottom line end regardless of the means. Ashley is
a heroine who is the key person with the lifeline that
enables her "Don Quixote" to adhere to his principles even
when he seems to be going under for the third time. Mr.
Zollinger has been one of the better historical fiction
authors of the past few decades and THE ROAD TO SANTA FE
shows why. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted January 4, 2002
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