The White Lights Roar — Tim Champlin

It is 1916 in Arizona along the border with Mexico. Below the border there is a revolution in progress. Pancho Villa and his army are intent on seizing power. In Arizona thousands of Krag rifles have disappeared. In fact, the entire train on which they were being transported vanished into the desert without a trace.

Tim Champlin, born John Michael Champlin in Fargo, North Dakota, currently resides in Nashville, Tennesse. In all of Champlin's stories there are unconventional plot ingredients, striking historical details, vivid characterizations of the multitude of ethnic and cultural diversity found on the frontier, and narratives rich and original and surprising.