Based on a historical incident, this is the story of what happens to a war-ravaged Mexican border town when Dr John Romulus Brinkley - rich because of his goat-gland operation to cure male impotence - chooses it as the location for a radio tower to advertise his services. New prosperity brings a lot of changes to Corazon de la Fuente, not all of them good...  Hough creates a book full of memorable characters.  It was a 2012 Governor General's Award nominee.