Charles Williams: 5 books

When a gringo ex-pat foolishly steps in to defend an Indian woman from an obsessed drug trafficker, he finds a still living world of ancient myths. With the drug trafficker's henchmen on their trail, they flee to her village in the mountains where an old tradition is about to be celebrated with ritual...

**A corrupt Mexican governor sets up dummy companies that collect the government’s funds for sham public projects he’s created.  When a journalist discovers his scheme, and tries to expose his plans for self enrichment  a killer is hired to murder the journalist. An ex-cop who is missing the...

Roger Ingram's peroration broke over the silent dining hall: "He and such as he are one with the great conquerors, the great scientists, the great poets; they have all of them cried of the unknown: 'I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in mine arms'." He sat down amid applause,...

Do you know what you’re doing? She asked. What about  Juanita? What about your children? Who exactly are you helping? Miguel Robles is dead. You can’t help him. Señor Mota? At least he’s still alive. A state senator makes a large bet on stocks with borrowed money, backed by embezzled...

From the top of the bank, behind a sparse hedge of thorn, the lioness stared at the Hertfordshire road. She moved her head from side to side, then suddenly she became rigid as if she had scented prey or enemy; she crouched lower, her body trembling, her tail swishing, but she made no sound. Almost...