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    The Territory: A Novel
    Ebook324 pages5 hoursJosie Gray Mysteries

    The Territory: A Novel

    By Tricia Fields

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    At the end of State Road 170 and just past a ghost town lies Artemis, population 2,500. The townspeople had sought out this remote corner of Western Texas in hopes of living lives of solitude and independence. None of them realized that their small town would become a hot spot for Mexican drug runners, whose turf battles have turned both sides of the Rio Grande into a war zone. Still, many of the locals would rather take the law into their own hands than get help from police chief Josie Gray, even when they're up against a cartel's private army.

    After arresting one of the cartel's hit men and killing another, Josie finds her life at risk for doing a job that many people would rather see her quit. And when the town's self-appointed protector of the Second Amendment is murdered and his cache of weapons disappears, it's clear that she doesn't have to pick sides in this war. She's battling them both.

    Set in a desert landscape as beautiful as it is dangerous, The Territory captures the current border issues from the eyes of a tough, compelling heroine and richly evokes the American Southwest.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 25, 2011
    ISBN9781429983983
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    The Territory: A Novel
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    Tricia Fields

    Born in Hawaii but spending most of her life in Indiana, Tricia Fields now lives with her family in a log cabin on a small farm. Fields won the Tony Hillerman Prize for her first novel in the Josie Gray mystery series, The Territory, which was also named a Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery Debut of the Year.

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    • 1/5

      Oct 16, 2018

      I didn't care for the book because it had no excitement and too much descripition of the sky
    • 3/5

      Aug 4, 2016

      An interesting mystery that revolves around the Mexican cartel drug trade. The story takes place in a small town close to the Rio Grande across from the Mexican border. The main character is a female chief of police who runs the 4 person (including herself) town police dept.

      A suspension of reality is required when reading this book, but then again this is a light, entertaining read. I do like the character of Josie Gray and will read her further adventures even though I felt the resolution of the murder was a bit silly and a let down for the reader.
    • 3/5

      Jan 8, 2015

      Fairly interesting plot, but better editing would have prevented some confusing issues with time and place setting. An apparent lack of knowledge of firearms also detracted from this story, which relies heavily on a gun-running plot line.
    • 4/5

      Jul 20, 2012

      In this first novel, Tricia Fields has made a mark for herself as an emerging crime fiction/mystery writer to be watched. THE TERRITORY, set in a dusty little town on the Rio Grande in West Texas, presents the reader with a gritty and real perspective of a small-town police chief dealing with the overflow of the cartel wars across the river from Mexico. A few missteps mar the book slightly, but they do not detract from the overall satisfaction and feel of the book.

      Police Chief Josie Gray, of Artemis, Texas, runs a department of three officers, in a county where the sheriff's department isn't much larger. Just across the Rio Grande, two rival cartels, the Medranos, long-established, and La Bestia, an insurgent trying to take over the territory, battle it out nightly. The carnage spills across the river when the patriarch of the Medranos, seriously wounded, is brought to the Trauma Center in Artemis, only to be butchered there by La Bestia gunmen, including a Medranos turncoat. In the gunfight, Gray wounds the traitor, who is held for the Feds in the small jail. The plot is woven throughout with the cartel threats, small-town politics in the form of an insufferable mayor, murder of the leader of a Second Amendment club, and the realities of too much open border with too few resources, Federal and local.

      Not so believable are some of the procedural oddities that occur. Bearing in mind the thinly-stretched law enforcement agencies, some of the actions of Chief Gray, especially certain liaisons with Federal forces, do not ring true. However, while momentarily distracting, these don't derail a story with a likeable protagonist fighting a vicious evil as best she can. I am looking forward to the next book from Ms. Fields.