Waiting for El Dorado: Novel

"In the desert, you can feel your pain better, because there is no one to inflict it on you...", sang the famous Californian rock band "Crosby Still Nash & Young" in the 60s. Nothing has changed because the desert is eternal.

Sam Saraindead, a French tax exile, lives hidden under a false identity in the depths of the arid lands of New Mexico. Fine rider, musician, he circulates anonymously among the earthy fauna of the natives, for the most part marginalized or excluded, marijuana traffickers, or even migrant retirees in mobile homes in search of cheap sun. Sam thought he was safe from everything, but a terrible tragedy precipitated him into a frantic flight through the middle of the canyons to save a dear friend. This journey will become over the days a true initiatory teaching which will lead the narrator to espouse little by little the Amerindian cause and the vision of the world of these peoples whose magical thought and shamanic practices remain alive in the face of the ukases of an American society that has become inhuman and oppressive. A plea and an observation in the form of a dark thriller.