Chaucer’s Books in Santa Barbara will host author Anthony Estrada for an in-store book talk and signing of his thriller “Those Who Fear Us,” 6 p.m. Thursday, April 4 at 3321 State St.

In “Those Who Fear Us,” a Latino police officer nearing retirement, his estranged lawyer son, and the former matriarch of their family, band together against an ambush by White Nationalist and Latino street gangs in a California farming community.

Sgt. Carlos Lopez patrols the streets of the isolated, sleepy California farming community of San Eugenio. Searching for meaning, purpose and dignity. He finds it at the expense of the town’s Latino migrant population.

A prisoner of his circumstances, Lopez believes the only possible escape is putting his department-issued Beretta 9mm to his head. In the midst of a case that has divided the nation, a call from headquarters to hold a high-profile murder suspect for the evening threatens to upend every story Lopez has created in his life, and forces him to confront the his past, his family, career legacy, and racial identity.

Estrada is a Los Angeles-based producer and writer.