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Even though the corrupt Sheriff Ross is dead and gone, outlaws still walk free, peace comes at a price, and redemption remains hard to find in this fiery and violent novel from the author of The Far Empty Sometimes we have to be wolves ... In the wake of Sheriff Stanford Ross's death, former deputy Chris Cherry--now Sheriff Cherry--is the new "law" in Big Bend County, yet he still struggles to escape the long, dark shadow of that infamous lawman. As Chris tries to remake and modernize his corrupt department, bringing in new deputies, including young America Reynosa and Ben Harper--a hard-edged veteran homicide detective now lured out of retirement--he finds himself constantly staring down a town unwilling to change, friends and enemies unable to let go of the past, and the harsh limits of his badge. But it's only when a local Rio Grande guide is brutally and inexplicably murdered, and America and Ben's ongoing investigation is swept aside by a secretive federal agent, that the novice sheriff truly understands just how tenuous his hold on that badge really is. And as other new threats rise right along with the unforgiving West Texas sun, nothing can prepare Chris for the high cost of crossing dangerous men such as John Wesley Earl, a high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas and the patriarch of a murderous clan that's descended on Chris's hometown of Murfee; or Thurman Flowers, a part-time pastor and full-time white supremacist hell-bent on founding his violent Church of Purity in the very heart of the Big Bend. Before long, Chris, America, and Ben are outmaneuvered, outnumbered, and outgunned--inexorably drawn into a nearly twenty-year vendetta that began with a murdered Texas Ranger on a dusty highway outside of Sweetwater, and that can only end with fire, blood, and bullets in Murfee's own sun-scorched streets ... Welcome back to the Big Bend ...
In the wake of Sheriff Stanford Ross's death, new sheriff Chris Cherry still struggles to escape Ross's long, dark shadow. He's trying to modernize the department, bringing in new deputies America Reynosa and Ben Harper. But they're facing a town unwilling to change, friends and enemies unable to let go of the past, and the harsh limits of the badge. When a local Rio Grande guide is brutally and inexplicably murdered, their investigation is swept aside by a secretive federal agent. And Big Bend is threatened by dangerous men such as John Wesley Earl, a high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, and Thurman Flowers, a part-time pastor and full-time white supremacist of the violent Church of Purity.

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PUBLISHED
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2018]
Year Published: 2018
Description: 466 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780399176357
0399176357

SUBJECTS
Sheriffs -- Fiction.
Motorcycle gangs -- Fiction.
White supremacy movements -- Fiction.
Texas -- Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)