Deran Ludd: 3 books

A well-paying working vacation in picturesque New Mexico. Two women, on assignment to kill someone else's irritant, end up playing a near deadly game of race and gender, just to get breakfast.

This is how the dead boy tells the story. Yes, Jane loved Henry in her way. Yes, Jane was driving the car in which Henry was mortally wounded. Yes, on the road, on the run, Jane did pick up a hitch-hiker. And, yes, Jane loved Carter too. But, in a different way, and, somebody else died.

In an adhoc family of survival and love, four kids fight and rob their way across civil war-ravaged Denver. At the end of the 20th century the USA has collapsed under the crush of Christian fascism and rapacious corporations. As the UN abandons efforts to stabilize the former-United States, the kids...