First Sentence

"FORTY YEARS BEFORE the Pueblo electricity scam rocked Chamisaville a year after April Delaney had returned home to resurrect an embarrassingly radical newspaper called the El Clarin, April's father Dale Rodey McQueen, a sometime prizefighter, medicine-oil hustler, cowpuncher, flesh peddler, and general all-round energetic ne'er-do-well from Mule-shoe, Texas, entered Chamisaville seated behind the wheel of a rattletrap school bus riddled with bullet holes."