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Tucson. Burning
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Ron Jordan is enjoying a rare day with his wife and son in their suburban Washington home when the idyll is snatched away by a call from a trusted news source. A week earlier, an illegal immigrant had left his family in El Fuerte, Mexico, to find work in the sprawling desert city of Tucson, unaware that he carried a new – possibly manufactured – strain of hemorrhagic fever. With lightning speed, it will take his life, launch the worst pandemic since 1918, and, in immigrant-weary Arizona, ignite an ethnic firestorm.
Worried about a financial and health panic, an election-year White House underplays the level of danger. Jordan breaks the story and heads for its epicenter. In Tucson, social order is disintegrating, along with care for the sick and dying. Hate groups gather from around the country to provoke radicalized Latinos into a bloody tit-for-tat while Tucson burns. Jordan faces a kill-or-be-killed decision. Afterward, he despises the man whose reflection refuses to meet his eyes in the mirror.
Jordan sees a bright line separating good from evil and, as Tucson. Burning opens he has no doubt on which side he stands. His career is dedicated to exposing wrongdoing in public life. Devoted husband and father, he has all the markers of success. Just not enough to satisfy his ambition.
That will turn his life and self-image on end.
Worried about a financial and health panic, an election-year White House underplays the level of danger. Jordan breaks the story and heads for its epicenter. In Tucson, social order is disintegrating, along with care for the sick and dying. Hate groups gather from around the country to provoke radicalized Latinos into a bloody tit-for-tat while Tucson burns. Jordan faces a kill-or-be-killed decision. Afterward, he despises the man whose reflection refuses to meet his eyes in the mirror.
Jordan sees a bright line separating good from evil and, as Tucson. Burning opens he has no doubt on which side he stands. His career is dedicated to exposing wrongdoing in public life. Devoted husband and father, he has all the markers of success. Just not enough to satisfy his ambition.
That will turn his life and self-image on end.
249 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 12, 2013
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