Doug Booth

Deferred Prejudice Doug Booth

Fifteen-year-old Hidalgo is brave for his mother as they cross the border into California to toil alongside his father in the vineyards of the Napa Valley; yet inside he's terrified, his mind filled with dreams and nightmares. He cannot imagine in the wildest of those dreams that one day he will achieve true greatness, or survive an unspeakable tragedy that will rip his family apart. Or that he will shake hands with the devil to find justice. He is preordained to become a leader of men, kind and benevolent, gracious and caring, whose single ambition is murder. Not once throughout his two terms in office has he shown clemency to the hopeful residents of death row at the eleventh hour, filling his days and years to forget, his vital spirit broken by the faded dream of one day finding and killing the man who stole his life.