Ride the Pink Horse

During the annual Fiesta, three desperate men converge in a perilous New Mexico town in this “extraordinary” crime novel ( The New Yorker ). It takes four days for Sailor to travel to New Mexico by bus. He arrives broke, sweaty, and ready to get what’s his. It’s the annual Fiesta, and the locals burn an effigy of Zozobra so that their troubles follow the mythical character into the fire. But for former senator Willis Douglass, trouble is just beginning. Sailor was Willis’s personal secretar