Ride the Pink Horse

A New York Times Best Mystery of 2021

Three desperate men converge in the midst of an annual carnival in New Mexico


Sailor used to be Senator Willis Douglass' protege. When he met the lawmaker, he was just a poor kid, living on the Chicago streets. Douglass took him in, put him through school, and groomed him to work as a confidential secretary. And as the senator's dealings became increasingly corrupt, he knew he could count on Sailor to clean up his messes.

Willis Douglass isn't a senator an...