Pain Angel

There's a battle on for the heart of Barrio Lobo... but nobody knows it. And for the heart of Officer Novena Rosas... but she's just as unaware. It plays out in gunfire, with officers down in more ways than one. Meanwhile, a backstory explains a lot about the fey local attorney, Victor Moncalvo, but he needs a little vision to explain things to himself. And La Flaca's father, unseen since he sold her at age 12, is starting to make her a legend, perhaps of "magical realism." And two total idiots are giving rotten drug traffickers a bad name. Followers of the BORDERLAND series will find that this book moves things along very nicely, and closes some issues while opening others.