Drowned Town

Blasting along a deserted stretch of highway in a battered car rattling with empty vodka bottles, a young woman is apprehended by the police. With her, she carries a stack of books written in long-dead languages, a fantastically expensive fur coat, and a loaded gun. And what everyone—including the woman—wants to know is what she's doing in middle-of-nowhere Texas, long after midnight, hundreds of ...