A Covenant With Death Author:Stephen Becker In the southwest in 1923, a man is charged with the murder of his very beautiful wife. The story is told by a judge, then only 29, whose personal flaws and conflicts--with women, with success, with life itself--mirror, and are mirrored in, the decision he alone must hand down, so that all the crises of his own life, and of his own society, are b... more »ound in deadly intimacy to the life and death of others.« less