During the first Gulf War, an Iraqi scud slaughters an Israeli father and daughter, among many others in a Tel Aviv apartment building. In her despair, the surviving wife and mother seeks the help of an old friend, Buck Duran in Austin, Texas. Her plea propels Duran twenty-five years into the past, where he encounters the horrors of an unknown serial killer. BONNELL VESPERS is a kaleidoscopic, time-warped plunge through Austin and the Hill Country, where bad guys bloom but the good bleed dry.