Night Bus to Progreso

One night in June, a beautiful woman, a salesman named Elvis, a professor, and a witch take the bus. It’s not the opening line for a joke, it’s the beginning of an adventure geology professor Dr. Donald Greenway wishes he had never had. Murder, sex, and gunplay in an impoverished, narco-plagued Latin American country jolt him out of his orderly life and into an Alice-in-Wonderland world where nothing goes as planned. He learns more than he ever wanted to know about his fellow passengers, the secrets they keep, and the chaos that results when these secrets are revealed. The plot of Night Bus to Progreso, the third novel by Haydon Rochester, Jr., never lets you go as it twists and turns from an unexpected start to a close shave at the end.