Thanks to Rebecca Brown of the Cadence Group, I am giving away one print copy of The Valles Caldera: Book Two in The Angus Series by Gary L. Stuart.
Description of The Valles Caldera by Gary L. Stuart
The Valles Caldera in New Mexico is the setting for Book Two of the Angus series of novels. More than a million years ago, a volcanic eruption created a 13-mile wide enclosed caldera filled with water. High mountain peaks formed from ring fractures dominate the caldera. It became a life sustaining place for generations of Indians, Hispanics, and Anglos.
This novel is about the epic battle between U.S. Marshal, Angus Esparazza, and a bad hombre named Mendoza-Mendoza, on the rim of the Valles Caldera. Mendoza and his men were tracking Angus up the Rio Grande to the confluence of the Rio Chama looking for a kill shot. Earlier, Angus had insulted Mendoza’s chest-pumping sons in the little village of Bernalillo. That insult came from the muzzle of Angus’s custom-made, .45 caliber, Colt single-action pistol. Angus was not after Mendoza or his boys; he was investigating one of New Mexico’s most famous legal cases–the hanging of Albuquerque Town Marshal Milton J. Yarberry in 1885.
Yarberry, one of the state’s most colorful historical characters, was hung by the “jerk method” in downtown Albuquerque. After witnessing that grim event, Angus meets Jill Garrison, a fictional character, who changes him in ways he could never have imagined. She was New Mexico’s first female gunsmith and its first high-end shooting instructor. In the end, Angus and a seven-man mounted posse cross the Rio Grande at Santa Fe to arrest Mendoza and his men. They ride all the way across the M/ ranch to the upper rim of the Valles Caldera. There, all hell breaks out.
About Gary L. Stuart
I earned degrees in business and law at the University of Arizona, graduated in the top ten-percent of my class, edited the Arizona Law Review and practiced law for 32 years with one of Arizona’s largest law firms (Jennings, Strouss, & Salmon & Trask). I was a full time trial lawyer until 2000 when I published my first novel. Since then, I have blended a part-time law practice with teaching law and writing at Arizona State University. I was inducted into the Arizona Lawyer Hall of Fame in 2010. While I’m still practicing law part time, I don’t try big cases these days. Instead, I write about them.
Over the years, I’ve published a dozen law review articles, and hundreds of op-ed pieces, essays, magazine articles, short stories, CLE booklets, and ten books, including: “The Ethical Trial Lawyer,” State Bar of Arizona, 1994; “Litigation Ethics,” Lexis-Nexis Publishing, 1998; “The Gallup 14,” a novel, University of New Mexico Press, 2000; “Miranda–The Story of America’s Right to Remain Silent,” University of Arizona Press, 2004; and “AIM For The Mayor,” a novel, Xlibris Press, 2008; “Innocent Until Interrogated–The Story of The Buddhist Temple Massacre and the Tucson Four,” University of Arizona Press, 2010. “Angus-Riding the Rio Chama” Create Space, 2013; “Ten Shoes Up” Gleason & Wall Publishing, 2015; “The Valles Caldera” Gleason & Wall Publishing, 2015.
In March 2016, my new true-crime nonfiction book will be published by ABA Publishing (Anerwyke). “Anatomy of a Confession: The Debra Milke Case” shouts its message from the spine of the book. It sends a subliminal message to readers ranging from history, literature, and law, to true crime and suspense. It details the legal path from conviction and death sentence in 1990 to reversal and exoneration in 2014. How and why a 26-year old mother was convicted of conspiring to murder her 4-year old child solely on the basis of a confession she never gave is a theme never before explored in legal text books or true crime nonfiction titles. It reveals how and why the Phoenix Police Department and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office hid vital impeachment evidence which would have changed the jury’s verdict. And it explains in anatomical detail how and why the jury believed the cop over the defendant.
Giveaway of The Valles Caldera by Gary L. Stuart
This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on February 26, 2016 at 12 am pacific time. Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.
