Signs of Life

Two strangers, a man and a woman, become acquainted over drinks in a bar. A tenuous connection is made that ends in a tryst with tragic consequences. So begins SIGNS OF LIFE, a tale of the cost of one’s past and the price one is willing to pay for the future. Harlan Quist, the cashiered ATF Agent from the novel JACK OF ALL TRADES, becomes enmeshed in a search for a child who was abducted fifteen years ago. What follows is the story of a mother’s willingness to sacrifice everything to recover her bond with a daughter whom she no longer knows. Quist accompanies her on a perilous odyssey and a descent into the world of human trafficking and drug cartel violence; a journey that leads from Fiesta in Santa Fe and the symbolic burning of Old Man Gloom to the underbelly of the tourist mecca of San Miguel de Allende, and finally to Oaxaca during the celebration of the Day of the Dead.