The Desert King

All Jack wanted was a little adventure. What he got was a battle with the ghosts of his past. And a battle for survival. Its 1985. After his release from an Arizona mental hospital, Jack Trexlors plans are simple: Lay low, tend bar, and stay out of trouble. But when his old friend Macy Barnes turns up, trouble follows close behind. Macy brings along the enigmatic John Lupo, a Navajo Indian with an incredible pastif their stories of high-adrenaline adventure are to be believed. Hungry for a little adventure of his own, Jack accepts their invitation to spend the weekend fishing on the Verde River. Maybe, just maybe, by cool waters deep in the heart of the desert, hell find what hes been missing. The journey gets off to a rocky start when Johns girlfriend and Macys wife join the group, along with snakes, scorpionsand the ghosts of Jacks past. Worse, they run afoul of a pack of poachers. Their quiet fishing trip suddenly turns into a fight for survival, and the group must depend on John Lupo to get them out alive. But Jack comes to realize that, even if they all survive, nothing will ever be the same. Warning, this title contains the following: graphic language, explicit violence, sexual references, snake scales, scorpion tails, lots of sun and sand and some angry guys with guns. Bring sunblock!