Sinagua Greens
Book Three of the Norzona Quartet concerns the area’s third main cultural group consisting of cowboys, hippies and blue-collar workers principally in the person of Eric Lange, older brother of Paul Tse’s legal sidekick Mike Lange. Once divorced Eric tires of his work as a machinist in the family business, and returning home from a long trip along the Mexican border with his son Stevie, he decides to move over the mountain to the Verde Valley where he comes to earn a living by growing and selling weed. But when his children Stevie and his younger daughter Mandita join him there to work on his gilrlfriend Florence’s campaign for State Representatve based on the Verde Valley seceding from Yavapai County, tragedy strikes as Mandita is killed while trying to defuse a eco-terrorist’s bomb. Wrongfully implicated, Eric flees across the border and eventually settles down to work with the Guatemalan Maya where he finds the love of his life Asuxena, with whom he eventually returns home to the beaufiful green valley to clear himself in a dramatic denouement to the novel.
