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9781940425450 Academic Inspection Copy

Cinco Becknell

  • ISBN-13: 9781940425450
  • Publisher: WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Lee Maynard
  • Price: AUD $39.99
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  • Local release date: 30/06/2015
  • Format: Paperback (215.00mm X 139.00mm) 395 pages Weight: 333g
  • Categories: Fiction & related items [F]
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Cinco Becknell is the story of a homeless man with no memory. Locked in the emptiness of his mind is a secret, a past, which will either keep him alive or get him killed. As Cinco staggers through a dangerous journey of rediscovery, he is hunted by psychopaths who want to kill him, and he has no idea why; he is shadowed by a woman who may keep him alive - or not; and he is finally helped by another woman who can bring back to him the light he looks for - if he can stay alive. But he is running out of time, and people around him are dying, always violently. Gradually, he begins to understand the true, brutal, nature of himself and of the darkness of his past. But it is a past, and a present, that he may never fully understand. This novel, based on generations of violent, local family history, is set in the underbelly of the pseudo-glitzy streets of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Lee Maynard was born and raised deep in the mountains of West Virginia, a location that drives the emotion and grit of most of his writing. He says he had never had a ""career."" Rather, he sought out ""day jobs"" while doing his real job - writing. Among several other things, he has been a criminal investigator, college president, and COO of a national experiential education organization. He now lives and writes at the edge of an Indian reservation in the high desert of New Mexico. He is the author of The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life and the Crum trilogy: Crum, Screaming with the Cannibals, and The Scummers.
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