The Creed of Violence
Boston Teran (Author)
October 2009
Hardcover · 320 Pages
$25.00 U.S. · €17.99 E.U.
ISBN 9781582435251
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Mexico, 1910. The landscape pulses with the force of the upcoming revolution, an atmosphere rich in opportunity for a criminal such as Rawbone. His fortune arrives across the haze of the Sierra Blanca in the form of a truck loaded with weapons, an easy sell to those financing a bloodletting.
But Rawbone's plan spins against him, and he soon finds himself at the Mexican-American border and in the hands of the Bureau of Investigation. He is offered a chance for immunity, but only if he agrees to proceed with his scheme to deliver the truck and its goods to the Mexican oil fields while under the command of Agent John Lourdes. Rawbone sees no other option and agrees to the deal — but he fails to recognize the true identity of Agent Lourdes, a man from deep within his past.
As they work to expose the criminal network at the core of the revolution, it is clear their journey into the tarred desert is a push toward a certain ruin, and the history lurking between the criminal and agent may seal their fates.
Praise for The Creed of Violence:
Boston Teran's The Creed of Violence is a terrific story and beautifully written. It works as a story about imperialism, and it's also a touching tale of fathers, sons and one very bad man's attempts at regeneration. But most of all it's exciting and tense and you'll probably read it, as I did, in one great sitting. — Robert Ward, author of Red Baker and Four Kinds of Rain
Teran's considerable skills sneakily transform his characters, who use language like a concealed weapon. His Rawbone, a raconteur straddling the gutter between the old West and belle époque, is a Manila line braided with wit, cold-blooded efficiency, and a surprisingly expansive soul — a romantic cynic too wise to misinterpret derision for insight. The hallucinogenic epic he traverses with young John Lourdes produces one of the most exciting literary pairings since Fagin met Twist. — Todd Field
Praise for God Is a Bullet:
Ranks with Joan Didion's The White Album … and John Ford's classic film The Searchers. — The San Francisco Examiner
A millennial morality play … that might well have been written by William Blake [and] James Ellroy … if they'd all sat around with a few gallons of absinthe. — Dallas Morning Herald
Praise for Never Count Out the Dead:
Cements Teran's talent as a … virtuoso. — Publishers Weekly
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