"A murder. A land grab. A won’t see it coming ending. The explosive return of Nick Drake.
Wildlife Ranger Nick Drake and Sheriff Pudge Warbler join forces to solve a grisly murder. Their investigation thrusts them into the middle of a vicious battle between ranchers and developers over a beautiful valley.
When they close in on the killer, everything the lawmen hold dear is threatened and forces a reckoning. Will they honor their oaths to follow the letter of the law in the pursuit of justice or damn the consequences and use any means necessary to protect the people and land they love?
Whatever their decision, one thing is certain. While the Wild West lives on in Harney County, Oregon, not everyone in this fight will.
Readers agree about the Nick Drake murder and mystery on the high lonesome series:
★★★★★ Smart, thrilling, beautifully-written.
★★★★★ A love song to a remote land.
★★★★★ Grabs you, holds you, and never lets you go.
★★★★★ Excellent contemporary western.
★★★★★ Love the emphasis on Native Americanism."
"For Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake, the war at home proves just as deadly.
Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffle bag. He's been trained to kill, but never retrained to rejoin society. Drake flees to the lonesome high desert in search of redemption and takes a job patrolling wildlife refuges where the only conflicts are keeping out stray cows and ticketing poachers. But then he stumbles across a girl's body ritually placed in a gully. Her murder is only the beginning, and Drake must face humanity's heart of darkness once again if he's to stop a killer from turning even more gullies into graves."
