The Cold War ended years ago, or did it? For Thurmond Giles, a decorated African American Air Force veteran found naked, dead, and dangling by his ankles inside a deactivated minuteman missile silo in desolate southeastern Wyoming, the answer is no. The labyrinthine investigation that follows his death—led by former fighter pilot Major Bernadette Cameron and ex-college baseball phenom-turned-reporter Elgin Cozy Coseia—reveals how the atomic eras legacy has continued to destroy both minds and lives. Astride a Pink Horse follows Bernadette, Cozy, and Cozys boss Freddie Dames match wits with a gallery of unforgettable murder suspects a powerful, right-wing-leaning cattle rancher a declining seventy-six-year-old WWII-era Japanese internment camp victim and her unstable math professor cousin an idealistic lifelong nuclear arms protestor and a civilian Air Force contractor with a twenty-year grudge against the murder victim.
