Blue Ink Review 

“West Texas Crude has a great deal going for it. West Texas Crude has a compelling and complex protagonist in Alex—a man with myriad and realistically incongruous feelings and experiences. Marcum also excels at rendering the multicultural society of Santa Fe.”

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Clarion Review

West Texas Crude is an entertaining and dramatic adventure in an interesting corner of the American Southwest. A vulgar but sympathetic hero, Alex, adds to a plot that involves academic bureaucracy and quantum physics in this unique and exciting Southwestern tale. Though Alex may be a flawed hero, he is not a boring one, and his exploits make for an exciting tale. West Texas Crude is a thriller with an interesting amalgam of themes, including Cochiti Pueblo and New Mexico culture, the Vietnam War, academic politics, artificial intelligence, and quantum physics.

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Kirkus Review

“In Marcum’s thriller, the protagonist, Alex Lohr, a Santa Fe college professor, pieces together an irresistible puzzle: his own life.”

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