The Far Empty, Scott - B

                                               "The Big Bend of the Rio Grande was outlaw country. Always has been, always will be." This fabulous novel, by a former federal agent, has this wide open place as a central character. The Texas side of the Trans-Pecos is more than 31,000 square miles. Big Bend county "was 10,000 miles of pure emptiness."  It is the author's ability to evoke the vastness, danger and loneliness of this no-man's land in the drug wars that makes this a special story. In the emptiness was a fictional town dominated by a mean-spirited SOB of a sheriff who had his way with everyone, killed as he wished and was the center of a federal investigation. This is a great, fun read. Once again, thanks Wendell.