The powerful sequel to Double Wide, the blockbuster Western Writers of America double Spur award winner for Best First Novel and Best Contemporary Western... and True West Magazine's Best Western Crime Novel of the Year A wealthy Tucson couple is murdered in a home invasion burglary-gone-horribly wrong. They were close friends of Prospero "Whip" Stark, a one-time major league phenom pitcher now living with a colorful group of outcasts in his remote, desert trailer park... and honing his detective skills reading classic crime novels. Hell-bent on justice, Whip's search for the killers leads him to the Champagne Cowboys, a gang of thieves covering their tracks with corpses.