Bob Beckett is awoken one night by a call from an old friend. The news that she bears is the news that Bob had hoped never to hear; his half-brother Carlos was coming back from New York.The two could not have been more different. Where Bob was a quiet man who ran the family business in the small town where they both grew up, Carlos was unbalanced and volatile, and prone to violent rages that had long held his small Texas in fear.Bob is convinced that...