desert dweller's field guide | taking down a criminal enterprise

local Tucson author Nic Tompkins' first novel.

summary: Charlie Eliasson has spent her life tackling one bizarre situation after another, the product of growing up wild in the jungle with a pack of equally wild siblings. Now living back in the U.S., her life is finally somewhat normal. She's nearly finished her Masters degree, has a good job, and spends her days in a comfortable rhythm. Her quiet life, however, is upended when the job she loves throws something in her path that will make her choose between the easy road, or the high road.

500 pages.