Desert Runner
by Joseph Swicegood
Category: Fiction

John Reece, seeing no future except beatings and death, painstakingly plans his escape from a desert Mexican prison. In spite of setbacks to his plans, the thought of continued life under the savage Captain Rodriguez and his equally brutal henchman, Sergeant Sanchez, causes Reece to carefully lay out his escape route. Having witnessed the pathetic ending of other prisoners in their thwarted attempts to escape, he knows first hand the odds of success are slim and that he will need more than just a little bit of luck. The trials and obstacles he encounters on his desert trek with his pursuers hot on his trail lead to some unanticipated developments, and welcome help from Indians he earlier had an opportunity to befriend.