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In C.J. Box's Badlands, the town of Grimstad used to be a place people came from but were never headed to. Now it’s the oil capital of North Dakota. With oil comes money, with money comes drugs, and with drugs come the dirtiest criminals Grimstad’s new deputy sheriff Cassie Dewell has ever...

It’s John Wayne Orkney’s first week as a cop. There’s already one dead body, two old flames, a half-feral foster brother, and a murder suspect who once slept with him… and recently ran over the police chief with a mobility scooter. Welcome back to Camelot, West Virginia—a down-but-not-out Appalachian town full of ghosts, grudges, and folks trying to claw their way back. Some with magic. Some with moonshine. John Wayne never wanted a badge. He’s already juggling EMT runs, trying to launch a business, and keeping tabs on his three wild brothers. Then there’s Gallagher Lance—...

On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him 20 times; then they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and disappeared into 10,000 square miles of the harshest wilderness terrain on the North American continent. Self-trained survivalists, the outlaws eluded the most sophisticated law enforcement technology on the planet and a pursuit force that represented more than 75 local, state, and federal police agencies with dozens of SWAT teams, U.S. Army Special Forces....

A mysterious old mining town from the old west draws the attention of a police squad while a series of murders and bank robberies take place. Sergeant Payne decides to send in Cole Parker, his top homicide investigator. Cole becomes informed of the town's wild west history, and he makes some shocking discoveries. But uncovering a secret passageway, hidden hatchways, and an underground tunnel is just the beginning. He begins to realize that the bank robbers have more of a history than he imagined, and he soon finds himself in dreadful danger.

The vicious Mexican cartel war boils over into the Big Bend in the explosive new novel from the author of The Far Empty and High White Sun. In the Mexican borderlands, a busload of student protesters is gunned down in broad daylight, a violent act blamed on the Nemesio cartel. But its aging...

The story of Gaiatri Singh: FBI-agent, Cowgirl, and Indian.

On the border, there are stories people tell in low voices—stories that shift with the wind, stories that carry the weight of truth even when no one can prove them. And the one name that keeps rising from the dust, again and again, is Juancho. He wasn’t born an outlaw. He became one. Once, he was a young undocumented worker chasing the American promise. But promises break easier than bones, and the country that claimed to offer hope only showed him the back of its hand. When he walked away from the U.S., he wasn’t running. He was leaving behind a place that had nothing left to teach ...

In a dying West Virginia town, the truth is more toxic than the water. Giovanni Moretti arrives in Ashford chasing the story that will define his career: a chemical plant poisoning its community while corporate lawyers bury the evidence in settlements and silence. What he finds is Beatrice Rappaccini—a twenty-two-year-old woman who has lived her entire life saturated with industrial toxins, her body adapted to contamination in ways that make her both medical marvel and living proof of corporate crime. Beatrice has never left her family's garden, where plants grow in impossible colors, ...

Ty Dawson, now the sheriff of Oregon's Meriwether County, is ready to put a trying year behind him, but he's afforded no such luck. In a country still coming to grips with the Vietnam War, Watergate, and Charles Manson, Ty's neck of the woods isn't safe from the turmoil-especially when a commune of young so-called hippies springs up out of nowhere . . .

A divided border. A ruthless enemy. One woman standing in the way. Rye Dalton knows the Arizona desert like the back of her hand. Rancher by birth, counterterrorism analyst by choice, she’s spent her life defending her land and her people. But when she uncovers a deadly conspiracy exploiting illegal migration routes, the fight hits closer to home than ever before. To expose the truth, Rye teams up with Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs—an unlikely alliance that could tip the balance between justice and chaos. Together, they plunge into a high-stakes game of border security, ...

Once Upon a Broken Time A simple man in a complicated time. When a city cop turns up dead in a quiet town under suspicious circumstances, the official story doesn’t sit right with Dave Miller. Among other hints of fowl play, whispers of a drug pipeline running through backcountry trails start to surface, and more indications of turbulence are in the air. With law enforcement looking the other way and too many folks content to stay quiet, Dave does what he’s always done: he gets to work. Alongside his loyal dogs, a sharp-shooting wife who’s as steady under pressure as he is, and a ...

Sometimes it takes decades to find your true family… but only a moment to lose them.Separated at birth, these twins find they have more than genetics in common: they’re both the target of killers who are willing to risk everything to take them out. Third book in That Twin Thing series, the excitement keeps on going for Van, Junior, Cindy, and everyone else they meet. Was peace even possible?