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When Cody, a Texas private investigator, is hired to look into what should be a straightforward missing person case, he soon realizes that he's taken on more than he bargained for. The facts surrounding the disappearance of Fort Worth businessman's daughter, twenty-year-old Mandy Traft, are far from clear. Did she run off with her boyfriend? Or has she been kidnapped? With each step Cody takes, the case becomes increasingly dangerous. Before long, he's been warned off, and bodies are starting to tumble. He knows he should get out while he still can. But he can't. Not until he finds Mandy.
"Texas Wind . . . went out of print on the same date it was put into print. If you found a copy, you were truly blessed. Readers and fans of Texas Wind have kept it alive by discussing it online, at conventions and over beers down at the local tap . . . I've seen it praised for all sorts of reasons, all of them reasonable, all of them true in their way. I'll tell you why I personally find it an important book: because it creates a world, in this case Texas, and fills it out in every way possible-through its characters, its sociology, and perhaps most important of all, the simple decency of its working-class protagonist."
— Ed Gorman |
