Joe Tone

Bones

Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream

One World,

“It was late on a Saturday night, when the beers had set in and plans were being forged to secure more, so the crowd could be forgiven if they didn’t see it happen: the number seven zooming in front of one horse, and then another, a blur of sorrel and pink on his way into the lead….”

Bones delivers a spectacular, rambunctious, twisty story about the vast crucial sprawling border between America and Mexico, a book that incorporates the large social issues of the places — both infamous and under-recognized. The events occur where crime intersects with larger issues like race, money, class, and justice in the Southwest, and uses the adrenaline and intrigue of quarter-horse racing to tell an intimate, riveting story.

Joe Tone is a former editor of the Dallas Observer, which has won many awards under his stewardship. His work has been cited multiple times in Best American Sportswriting, and he is a member in good standing of the annual Mayborn gathering of non-fiction writers.