Accustomed to the Dark — Walter Satterthwait

When Rita Mondragon is shot by the same psychopath who nearly killed her six years earlier, it's a nightmare revisited for both Rita and Joshua Croft, friend, business partner and lover. As Rita hovers near death, Joshua begins a harrowing cross-country odyssey in search of Ernie Martinez.

Ernie is waiting, just one step ahead, taunting Joshua on a deadly pursuit that takes them from Santa Fe to the Kansas prairies and on to the sweltering Everglades. It is a journey both savage and surreal, mysterious and enlightening, as past and present merge in a final blood vendetta.