title: The Last King of Texas
author:  Rick Riordan 
description: "Raise your margarita to Rick Riordan.... This tale of revenge and remorse sizzles and skids like drops of water on a hot skillet."<i>Texas Monthly</i><br /><br />"Starts off with a literal bang and then gathers speed from there."<i>Entertainment Weekly</i> <br /><br />"If not the king of Texas crime writing, Rick Riordan is certainly among the princes in a royal family that already includes James Lee Burke."<i> Denver Post</i><br /><br />"Riordan writes so well about the people and topography of his Texas hometown that he quickly marks the territory as his own."<i>Chicago Tribune</i>
zlib_text: THE LAST KING OF TEXAS
  RICK RIORDAN 
  The third book in the Tres Navarre series
  Copyright © 2000 by Rick Riordan.
  ISBN 0-553-57991-6
  To Lyn Belisle, first editor and fan, 
  Renaissance woman, damned good sport, 
  and 
  Rick Riordan, Sr., who knows all the rides
    
    
    
    
   
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
  Many thanks to the people who helped with the
  research for this book — Dr.  Jeanne Reesman,
  head of the English division at the University of
  Texas at San  Antonio; Lieutenant Pefia,
  supervisor of criminal investigations for the UTSA 
  
  Sergeant Cunaya of the San Antonio  Police
  Department media relations office; Lieutenant
  Quintanilla, commander of  the SAPD homicide
  division; Corporal Mac McCully and Sergeant
  Marin of the  Bexar County Sheriff's Department;
  Ben and Jim Glusing for the continued use  of a
  fine ranch in Sabinal; Rick Riordan, Sr., for the
  family history; Dr. John  Klahn and Dr. Roderick
  Haff for medical information. Special thanks to
  Bexar  County Sheriff's Deputy Don Falcon and
  Sergean