During the Great Depression a desperate woman turns to crime in order to raise the money to find her stolen child. With the help of an old cowboy, a naive auto mechanic and her scheming 15-year-old niece, Virginia Crow robs a bank, hijacks an armored car, and finds far more trouble than she bargained for.
This book takes place during the depression and is about a woman who had her child taken away from her, and in order to find this child she needs the money to search for her and so decides upon a life of crime. This is not an uplifting book, but it is well written and enjoyable just the same as one follows the adventures and misadventures of the her and the man that she hooks up with in her search for her child.