Visit a world where a wildland firefighter must use his mysterious powers to save his crew from a roaring inferno. Follow an eco-tourist's frantic efforts to escape an African quarantine zone ravaged by a deadly virus. And tune into Texas station KRAP (don't touch that dial, there's KRAP on it!) as a pair of down-home country deejays try their damnedest to stop a murder...while they're still on the air.
Short Stories Included:
- A Talent for Fire
- The Pusher's List
- The Most Wanted Woman
- Blood Heist
- My First Date with Jolene and her Cousin, Billy-Bob
- A Road Painted in Scarlet
- Never Mind the Princess, Save the Dragon
- Quarantine on the Black Nile
- Which Way to the Dragon
- Three Scars
- A Most Helpful Text
- Cantaloupes and Wild Shoshone
- Slumgullion Sector
- I Got Some Bad Muse For You
- Shadow on the SeaÂ
- Sharpest Tool in the Shed
- An Assassin in the Vatican
- Strangelets with a Side of Grilled Spam