It would figure that the world would collapse right as he was settling in to a quiet life in a quiet town. Wilford Saxton just got a date and donut when a call from an unknown number sends him speeding toward Shiprock, New Mexico. Get there and fix the problem, the caller said, or the girl in Albuquerque dies.
Against his wishes, Wilford is dragged into a game of evil that spans three generations and this time the stakes are dangerously high. If he fails, it won’t just be the girl in Albuquerque that he fought so hard to save getting killed or a handful of people slaughtered horribly. Something is slumbering on Shiprock and if gets loose, the whole Southwest will be doomed to an eternal nightmare.
Armed only with his talking gun and his last two friends in the world, Wilford Saxton is about to walk into a bloodbath as faces the yee naaldlooshii. The skin walkers are out and no one is safe.
Eric Lahti grew up looking for UFOs and buried treasure in northwest New Mexico. Unfortunately, he never found either of them. Or maybe he did and he's just not telling. He did find some good stories to tell at parties about lights in the skies and gold in the ground, though. When he's not writing, he's programming and practicing his Kenpo. He's also an active blogger, waxing philosophical about a range of topics from writing, to martial arts, to politics and religion. Frankly, he fancies himself something of a Renaissance geek about a wide variety of things. In addition to his current books, Better Than Dead is going to be published relatively soon-ish.
I love the expanding universe of the Henchmen Series. As usual, Lahti produced an easily digestible short read full of action and details that prove he's competent in all the fields he covers with his writing. This story introduces a new kind of monster for Saxton to hunt and offers an important ending that continues to tie the whole series together brilliantly. These Saxton spinoffs do a phenomenal job of further characterizing an important supporting character to the Henchmen series (Steven's foil) and work well for the reader on the go.
The Saxton stories are highly creative and exciting. Lahti blends different southwestern mythologies into his modern action fantasy story; developing Saxton into a complete character from a supporting role in the Henchmen series.