Left on Rancho

By Francesco Paola

Book Overview

For fans of Tod Goldberg's Gangster Trilogy and Tim O'Brien's America Fantastica, this contemporary noir follows a burned-out tech entrepreneur into the Wild West of California cannabis and the converging worlds of contraband weed and illegal immigration.

It's October 2019 and Andrew Eastman, a tech entrepreneur with a bank account running on fumes, has just ridden into Adelanto, a desolate outpost in the Mojave Desert, to help an old friend. The ask: turn around a fledgling legal cannabis operation.

Andrew, the outsider, asks too many questions--about the viability of the legal market, the inoperative surveillance cameras in the factory, and the dominance of the illegal trade--and makes himself a target. Undeterred, he journeys from Adelanto to West Hollywood to the underbelly of Los Angeles on a hunt for contraband. When he lands at the intersection of cannabis and immigration, and as bodies pile up around him, he is left with one last decision--one that will forever change him.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684632927
• ISBN13: 9781684632923
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Sparkpress
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.4"