About This Book
"ROJO" was inspired by a single road leading into Taos, New Mexico.¿Once called The Sante Fe Trail, it is theoldest road in the United States.¿ It is the only way by car into Taos,leading to a world old as it was long ago, electricity and running water sparseand isolated.¿ In this region live the Pueblo,as well as the Navajo, and many other southwestern tribes.¿ This one way in and out sparked the story ofone man's quest and journey into manhood, and into a harsh and foreward existence known as the "REAL WORLD".Foreign to him, his raw and crude upbringing, becomes hispower over the sophistication of Carlos Bin'ere, headand leader of the Circle of Red Fire.¿Carlos' Spanish name is L'Lama De La Rojo, meaning the Fire of Red.¿ It is the young vivacious, hot-tempered agentJackson Martinez who ultimately tears the circle to shreds.¿ He must take an unspeakable, unforgivingdecision, crossing bounds that leave friends, family, colleaguesaghast.¿ As he is inched further into hisown realms of sanity and might of spirit, he finds himself standing alone on aline of shadow that only he can cross.As a young deputy in Taos,he is shot and left for dead by poachers he has confronted.¿ Weeping, nineteen year old Jacksonmust shoot his horse to spare her misery as she too laysdying.¿ His young wife is run off theroad as the poachers flee the area, and she too is killed.¿ She carried their baby.¿ Special agent Martin Leon Caswell is calledto the scene, as suspspiciouns mount that thepoachers are connected with The Circle of Red.¿Martin is correct.¿ One yearlater, his daughter Cassie is brutally attacked in their home as a message forCaswell to back off.¿ He works for theHouston based FBI, trains Jackson, who has come to no other means of stoppingThe Ring that has brought so much trauma and sorrow to his family, his friends,his people.¿ By age 22, he is fullycapable, on all levels, to face off with Carlos who has run free now for adecade, doing as he wished in American businesses.¿ It C
