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This collection of Quaid Hudson stories includes books 1, 2 and 3 in the series. Each book can be read as a separate story, without need to read the prequels. However, readers may find better purchase value plus extended reading pleasure in having the stories bundled together. This is a classic "coming of age" story, set in rural America, in the present day, against a backdrop of violent border drug wars along the Rio Grande. Young rancher Quaid Hudson and his Ma share their ranch with an enigmatic old desert shaman, Achai. Their quiet rural lives are changed forever by a violent brush with the Mexican drug cartels, a brush that Quaid naively engineers, against his mentor, Achai's, advice. Death, betrayal and mistrust are suddenly thrust upon Quaid, as is his first love interest. He evades the sinister attentions of the Sinoloa drug cartel the first time around, but they are not finished with Quaid, or Achai or any close to the two. The fast-paced story plays out across the border into Mexico, with Quaid a hostage of and Achai a fugitive from the cartel. But the wise old desert shaman represents something ancient and primal, something that the Mexican cartel should have recognised before they messed with him. In a type of "butterfly effect," Quaid's stupid meddling with the cartel's activities eventually unleashes a wave of revenge and retribution, turning evil back on itself. This is a story at once gritty, sometimes violent, occasionally nostalgic for a simpler time, fast-paced and complex in plot, but at its core also romantic in its view of men and women and of good and evil.