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Broken Earth
An Apache Tribal sergeant must enforce the law on sacred ground as southern Arizona faces murder and mayhem in this crime thriller.
As a sergeant for the Apache Tribal police, Al Victor considers it his responsibility to protect traditional Apache culture while enforcing the law. But now those two duties are coming into direct conflict as he tracks a vagrant medicine man onto sacred ground.
Meanwhile, Dep. Manny Sanchez has come under attack from a drug smuggler, and as Sgt. Bren Allred hunts for the missing Miss Graham County, he finds himself delivering a teenage boy from miscarried justice.
As a sergeant for the Apache Tribal police, Al Victor considers it his responsibility to protect traditional Apache culture while enforcing the law. But now those two duties are coming into direct conflict as he tracks a vagrant medicine man onto sacred ground.
Meanwhile, Dep. Manny Sanchez has come under attack from a drug smuggler, and as Sgt. Bren Allred hunts for the missing Miss Graham County, he finds himself delivering a teenage boy from miscarried justice.
272 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 26, 2023
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About the author
Virgil Alexander
6 books16 followersI was born in my parents home in rural Gila County near Miami, Arizona. Grew up running wild in the hills with my siblings and friends. We hunted, camped, fished, rode our horses, and salvaged soda bottles, copper wire, and old batteries for cash.
Summer afternoons in Arizona, even at our 4,000 feet altitude, are too hot to be out doors so for four to six hours every day I read at home under the evaporative cooler, or at the Miami Library or the Old Dominion Library in Globe. I developed a deep love of books,libraries, and eventually writing,that has provided adventure and joy my entire life.
In college I studied engineering for two years. The economy and marriage moved me to working for a large copper mine. For the next 42 years I continued my education while working in an engineering materials lab, then a power plant lab tech, an analytical chemist, a journeyman instrumentman,an electrical and instrumentation supervisor, a system administrator, a corporate process manager, and finally corporate technical superintendent.
In my work I travelled widely on projects in North and South America and some in Europe. I also wrote volumes of technical material, training manuels, operations manuals, standard operating procedures, newsletters, and reports.
In the last few years of my career I began researching and writing a history of ranching in Gila County; a growing project that continues today. I also started my first mystery novel, The Wham Curse my link text finishing it in the year after retirement.
Summer afternoons in Arizona, even at our 4,000 feet altitude, are too hot to be out doors so for four to six hours every day I read at home under the evaporative cooler, or at the Miami Library or the Old Dominion Library in Globe. I developed a deep love of books,libraries, and eventually writing,that has provided adventure and joy my entire life.
In college I studied engineering for two years. The economy and marriage moved me to working for a large copper mine. For the next 42 years I continued my education while working in an engineering materials lab, then a power plant lab tech, an analytical chemist, a journeyman instrumentman,an electrical and instrumentation supervisor, a system administrator, a corporate process manager, and finally corporate technical superintendent.
In my work I travelled widely on projects in North and South America and some in Europe. I also wrote volumes of technical material, training manuels, operations manuals, standard operating procedures, newsletters, and reports.
In the last few years of my career I began researching and writing a history of ranching in Gila County; a growing project that continues today. I also started my first mystery novel, The Wham Curse my link text finishing it in the year after retirement.
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January 21, 2025
I didn't want this one to end since it is the last in the series of 5. Great Arizona history and location. I hope there will be more from this author.
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