Blood Sins

Lane Harper, a bookie, played safety for the Dallas Cowboys has math skills at the genius level. This combo once let him crank out betting lines that drew lots of high stakes gamblers. That was before a bust for illegal gambling slammed him down on the jail house turf.
Just out of prison, Harper meets a dying woman who convinces him she’s his mother and then confesses to a 1966 bombing in California where innocents were slaughtered. She tells about his father who was killed in a plane crash twenty-five years earlier, and more bizarre, why the plane went down. In the remote Mexican desert, Harper, seeking closure, locates the plane wreckage and three skeletons, two with perfect round holes in the forehead. Back home, just days later, a mutilated body is found on his property, adorned with a macabre message made of a 60’s peace sign, an American flag, and a junkie’s kit.
A crooked homicide detective wants Harper nailed for the murder, and a desperate ex-gambling customer is willing to set him up. But for Lane Harper, the real trouble is a deranged half-brother seeking revenge, pay back for Harper’s father who used the body of a fallen hometown buddy to smuggle heroin from Vietnam. Though Harper never knew his parents, their depraved legacies have now launched him into the cross fire of his homicidal blood kin.