In exchange for his freedom, a Confederate prisoner chooses to hitch on with a Federal posse, tracking his former commander into Mexico, where he hopes to find answers to the mysterious death of his brother.

More notes: What's the appeal of the Confederate prisoner to the Federal Posse? That is, what special knowledge or skill he brings to the hunt for the commander that the Feds can't find among their own?

Also: a Federal posse has no legal authority to invade Mexico to capture the commander. So the posse would have to violate Mexican sovereignty -- a dramatic complication, to be sure. In fact, going into Mexico illegally is a potentially more interesting dramatic hook to me than the fact that an ex-Confederate agrees to assist a Federal posse.

More notes: What's the appeal of the Confederate prisoner to the Federal Posse? That is, what special knowledge or skill he brings to the hunt for the commander that the Feds can't find among their own?

Also: a Federal posse has no legal authority to invade Mexico to capture the commander. So the posse would have to violate Mexican sovereignty -- a dramatic complication, to be sure. In fact, going into Mexico illegally is a potentially more interesting dramatic hook to me than the fact that an ex-Confederate agrees to assist a Federal posse.

I think you are spot on in your review.

I think I tried to over motivate the protag and it only confused things..

He has been imprisoned after the war for unrelated activities.

They are must find this commander so he will pay for war crimes committed.

I came into this thinking Western Apocalypse Now and then things started to get complicated.

Thanks for your well thought out comments.

-Pete