To Go with Rage

In this sequel to Elledge’s novel To Go Forth in the Midst of Wolves, journalist Margo Winters, former priest Joseph Casey, and their prot©g©, Joaquin Petain, are reunited in a struggle for justice. Long-smoldering resentments between the affluent Anglo establishment and Casey’s Casa Esperanza, a commune providing refuge for the disenchanted Mexican population, erupt into violence along the Texas Rio Grande as the inherent prejudices in vogue in this 1945 time frame, coupled with an ever-increasing communist hysteria, produce a drama punctuated by murder and a political system that has lost its moral bearings. A labor stoppage reflecting the importance of Chicano power leads to violence that each of the protagonists has to confront on his or her own terms. This is a story of survival, not only in the physical sense, but one of retribution of the soul directed toward a startling climax filled with spiritual rejuvenation.