Red Tears — Mark Manley

RED TEARSbyMark ManleyWhen eight monks are gunned down at the Thai Buddhist temple in Lizard, Arizona and a note implicating the monks in the biggest heroin deal ever is found at the crime scene, everyone gets nervous. The massacre is the worst in the history of Arizona, and local authorities, as well as the U.S. and Thai governments want the matter resolved as quickly as possible. So do the area's extremely concerned heroin dealers. They know they didn't order the hit on the monks. So who did? And who's next on the hit list?Enter musician, and pistolero, Ellison Adams. His wife has recently run off with her old boyfriend, a homicidal criminal with half the local Sheriff's deputies on his payroll. And she's taken their two young children with her. El is desperate to find his family, but that's going to take money. El's landlord, a drug dealer himself, has a solution. Find out who is behind the murder of the monks, and he and the other drug dealers will pay El $50,000.El reluctantly takes the job. RED TEARS is a thriller, a desert noir, an urban western, and the first in a series of books about El Adams set in the American Southwest.