Something Like a Dream

A gringo expatriate on the Mexican west coast, Cotton Waters is known to his cantina buddies as "Algo"--Something in Spanish. Algo is an ex-political activist and beach bum. In Nayarit fishing villages, he scrounges his lazy living and a little beer money out of the Puerto Vallarta tourist trade as a hustler of a Mexican Riviera lost-and-found--helping some people get lost and finding others--if the price is right or the cause is worth it. In the summer of '82 the worthy cause is Corina Springfield, possibly the most beautiful woman Cotton Waters has ever seen. Corina is searching for her husband, heir to the Springfield Foundation, missing and presumed dead. When Corina shows Algo evidence that her husband may be living among the Huichols, one of Mexico's most mysterious indigenous peoples, "Something" isn't sure he can find her husband, but he knows he wants to try. Hunting for a lost hero-husband living as a shaman in a tribe of peyote worshipers, Cotton Waters leads Corina deep into the sierra heart of Huichol territory. On this strange pilgrimage Waters will find a new perspective on reality and dream, on deceit and self-deception, and experience a healing ceremony that will change his life forever...or simply end it.